The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.
The first Broadway play I ever saw was 'The Bad Seed' by Maxwell Anderson and with Patty McCormack. 'The Bad Seed' was from an extraordinary novel by William March.
I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.
When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!
'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.
I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights.
I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
I'm really aging myself, but I grew up with 'Playhouse 90' and the plays on the air - 90 minute plays.
The writing was vastly superior to almost anything that was on the air. It's one of the great shows. It was an important show... 'St. Elsewhere' was one of the great shows in the history of television.
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.
I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.
What could be more fitting - or more exciting - than to restage Shakespeare's plays on the very spot where they were first performed, in the shape and style of theater for which they were written?
Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
