Michael Rady 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 used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

I started doing professional theater and industrials in Chicago when I was a little squirt.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

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.

I love acting. I love singing. Eventually, I'd love to go on Broadway. I love New York so much.

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

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

I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

I never played an ingenue.

I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

I was in high school, and I was the guy that always got cast in the school play. Theater is huge in high school in Minnesota, and I knew that I was very good at that, and gifted, and I was 'the guy,' but it still wasn't something I ever thought of as 'a job' or something that one could do professionally.

I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.

By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.