Joe Piscopo Quotes

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

One day, I would like to be a part of a stage production, preferably a musical.

I thought that's where I would go: I would become a Shakespearian actor.

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

I really like acting in English.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.