The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show.
When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.
I really do like being on stage. Compared to television I have a lot more control - it's a lot more relaxed and loose.
When I was doing 'Britain's Got Talent,' I really enjoyed it, but I found it very difficult to be in the audience. I like to be on stage; I feel safer on stage because I'm in control.
I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.
It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.
The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.
I like shooting locations just because too much control on the stage can be a bad thing.
I like your own shows because you can have a bit more fun and extend your set, you can go a bit over if you want because it's your show. Whereas at festivals it's very strict, like if you go like two minutes over they get ready to pull the plug kind-of-thing. They're both good and bad.
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
There's so much control of the audience's experience when you're on stage doing a play, whereas when working on camera, there's a lot of people that have to do a lot of things exactly right for anything that I do to matter at all.
I'm a big fan of the young 1950s Elvis when he would just go onstage and control the whole environment.
When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.
An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.
Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.
The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.
