The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
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