Betsy Brandt Quotes

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

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 never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

My first paying job was a in a production of Neil LaBute's 'Bash: Latter Day Plays' at the Union Street theater in Borough. I played the 'Medea Redux' character. That was my first job out of drama school. I can't remember how much I got paid. I'm sure it was pennies.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older.

My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.

I started auditioning, and the first job I ever got was understudying Amy Ryan in 'The Sisters Rosensweig' on Broadway, directed by Daniel Sullivan. I was 18 years old.