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"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
"All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird."
"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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"I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way."
"I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there."
"It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary."
"There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that."
"Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine."
"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."
"At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space."
"The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it."
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