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"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
"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."
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"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."
"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."
"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
"I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it."
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