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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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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."

"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

"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."

"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."

"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."

"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."

"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."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
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