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"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years."
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"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."

"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."

"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."

"I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket."

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

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

"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 have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek."
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"Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre."

"I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema."

"I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?"

"I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good."

"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."
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