Lin Shaye Quotes

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

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

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.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

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

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that.

My mum sent me to an open audition for 'Notes On A Scandal' so I could see quite how many other girls wanted to do this. And I queued up, and I got the job. That was my first-ever audition, and my second was 'Atonement.'

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.

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater.

After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street.

As much as I moved to New York and tried to work in theater as much as I could - I developed a relationship with Circle Rep - make no mistake about it, I really, really wanted to be in a film. It seemed like almost everyone I knew at least did something in a movie, except me.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

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.