Brian Baumgartner Quotes

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 see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I played comedies and dramas.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

Obviously musical theatre is not my thing, but dramatic theatre is much more up my alley.

I wanted to do theatre - it has always been my thing.

I love acting. I was one of those dudes that was always in the plays in the church and at school.

I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Class clowns become actors.

Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.