My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.
I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.
All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.
People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.
Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.
I've sat in the theater for thousands and thousands of shows.
With my background, I came out of the theater.
I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.
I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.
Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.
One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
Roger Thornhill: And what the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here? Phillip Vandamm: Games? Must we? Roger Thornhill: Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets for the theater this evening, to a show I was...
I was made for action movies.
