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There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

The beauty of theater is that it can surprise you.

Yeah, it’s funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There’s still about half the cast that I’ve never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry.

I’m in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.