Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.
I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.
My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.
I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.
I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.
You can really get your chops in shape in the resident theatres, and I urge anyone to investigate them and to be willing to go anywhere to pursue the great roles.
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
