David James Elliott Quotes

I'm kind of a jack of all trades. I have played all kinds of roles in the theater.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.

I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in 'Macbeth.'

When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

The time and preparation before a play is something I really value, and it's something I learned in New York.

It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.

In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!

In high school, I tried out for every sport there was. But none of them would have me. When I was a freshman, someone asked me to go audition for a play with them. I got in and didn't want to do anything else for the next four years.

I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.

Theater definitely prepared me for Cyborg in the best way possible. All of the green screen definitely takes me to my minimalist theater days.

My senior year, I got to play Maureen in 'Rent,' and I had more fun than I'd ever had in my life.

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 did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs through the rehearsal processes.

A couple of my favorite actors are Don Cheadle, Jeffrey Wright, and, may he rest in peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman. I've had an opportunity to see all of them onscreen and onstage.