Peter MacNicol Quotes

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

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

I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.

I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.

I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.

I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

My plan is to stay in New York for as long as I can and do some theater out here and just keep working creatively.

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

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

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

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

I'd like to do a play in New York.

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.

All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.

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

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David Lynch was in town and wanted to meet with me.

Doing a play in New York is ticking off a major, major bucket list thing for me.