We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
Theater dates very quickly.
There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.
When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.
If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.