With the theatre your whole day is geared towards the evening's show and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5 or maybe 7.

In the theatre people talk. Talk talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

But men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I come from the New York theatre world and I have a lot of gay male friends so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you acting with your entire soul.

I had great faith in Irish actors that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.