Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.
I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.
I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
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.
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
Theatre is immediate gratification.
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.
I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.