“I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened...” — Bill Pullman Quote

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.

I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.

I've done a lot of different kinds of things, so different people remember me for different things.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

Lena Horne - when she walked onstage, she really was Erzulie.

I've been lucky enough to do a tiny bit of Shakespeare onstage over the years.

In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.

It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.