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Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.

It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.