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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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"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."

"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."

"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."

"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
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"The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it."

"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."

"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

"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."

"I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there."

"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."

"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."

"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."
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