I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.
What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have.
Cinema and, most of all, films have changed my life much more than theatre or television. And that is the reason why I'm an actress.
I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.
Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.
When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.
I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.
Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.
My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
