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I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

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

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.