Bea Arthur Quotes

I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

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 had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

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

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

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 did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

I've done a couple of Broadway shows and sang before I did any acting.

I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.

When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story.

I've always been in institutional theater.

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.

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

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

'Miss Saigon' was my first professional show. It was one of the first regional productions of 'Miss Saigon.'

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

Before I did any television or film, I did years and years of theater. Television and film stuff, even though it went on for a good, healthy number of years, almost felt like a diversion from theater.