Performance Environment Quotes

Realizing that my surroundings were going to be built around me, the way that I performed, we helped the directors through the performance, to create the world that we were going to be seen in. I was very fascinated with that.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

Apart from the first set - which used high-level concert lighting - once you stepped into the two narrative pieces, we were working with lower-level theatrical lights. In most cases, people were really respectful of that.

I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.

How many times do you get to play in Portland in front of how many thousands of people? That's the kind of environment we want to be in.

I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.

A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.