Gary Sinise Quotes

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.

I had started doing small community theater shows in my hometown of Cleveland. I did a lot of shows there before I met this director who told me, 'Listen, I really think you could be on Broadway.' And I was like, 'No, that's crazy.' I didn't believe it... I was 9, maybe 8 years old at the time, and I was like, 'No. No way.'

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.

In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.

Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true.

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.

I loved working in Pittsburgh - the theater there is amazing, so many different types of theater.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater.

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

My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.

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