Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.
Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.
The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.'
Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?
It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.
I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.
Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.
When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.
I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.
I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.
I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.
I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.
I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.
