My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

During a trip to Iraq last fall I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust which unhappily many of them do not know about.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater obviously and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen even the writers.

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it no one can bring you down.

Theater is of course a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.