On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.
People forget that even the biggest hit shows, like 'Hamilton,' started off-Broadway.
I'm a New York girl. I come out of New York theater.
Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
Chicago actors and Chicago theater is some of the most authentic stuff that you will ever encounter, and I'm so proud to have come up from that. It's where I cut my teeth and where I found my passion for this work.
The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I believe the only - the only - separation for being a dramatist is reading drama.
I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'
Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.
