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.
The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.
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'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
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.
I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love science-fiction.
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
