When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.
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The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.
I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.
Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.
There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.