My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

Paul Gleason played the teacher. I just tortured him as best I could. 'Cause he wasn't one of the kids, you know, so it was okay. He was great.

We worked six days a week [on the The Breakfast Club], so you have one day off. So on that Saturday night, it's not like we could all go out and have a drink because Molly [Ringwald ] and Michael [Hall] weren't old enough. And Ally [Sheedy] pretty much kept to herself. So Emilio and I, every Saturday night, would go into Chicago because we were shooting outside of Chicago in Des Plaines. It's so funny, because even though we might be adversaries in the film, we certainly weren't off-camera. He's a very funny guy.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.