I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.
I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.
I'm incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to bring Mae to work with me as I take on the guest role of 'Mary McGowan.'
'Three Tall Women' is kind of fascinating. I had never seen it itself, and I imagine the audience will find it very intriguing to watch the reveal of who these people are and how they interact in the second act.
I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.
I am a kind of competitive person. I am competitive with myself. I won't let anything go until I am satisfied with how it is.
I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.
I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.
I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.
I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.
I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.
Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.
I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.
I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.
Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.
I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.
I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.
Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.
