Pastoral Resources

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground.

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.