Joe Morton Quotes

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

I've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my dream.

Yes, I'd really love to get a chance to tread the boards in the West End, that would be incredible.

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

I think I always knew I was going to somehow be on a stage. I was quite an extrovert, as a child. And I did a lot of music, when I was younger, so I thought I was going to go into music, but I fell into acting, in a really weird way.

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

I'd like to do more acting.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.

I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.

I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be to get the best bartending job I could find and do theater in New York. And that was a good life.

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say 'high Anglo-Catholic' would be a real English understatement.

I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.

I've never been onstage in my life.