Miles Heizer Quotes

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

The theatre training is second to none in Ireland and England. You meet people who haven't had theatre training - it is harder for people who worked in TV to go into theatre than the other way around.

I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

I started acting in junior high. I was in 'Guys and Dolls.' I was Stanley Kowalski. In my head, before coming to Hollywood, I thought, 'I can play anything.'

I got my Actors' Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in 'Peter Pan' at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first show I did as a full-fledged, dues-paying member; I earned points in my MFA program, then went into the company after I graduated.

When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.