Valerie Azlynn Quotes

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

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 was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I got into theater at an early age.

Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

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

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

My two boys have each done a play. They've done school plays as well, but one of them did a local production of 'Waiting For Godot,' and he played the boy.

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.

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.