Jackee Harry Quotes

When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm definitely gonna do this.' After that, I did little shows and started auditioning.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

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

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.

I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor. You don't go to Hollywood, you go straight to New York and work in the theater. So that's what most of the people I knew did.

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

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

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

I started acting as a teenager, but it wasn't until I moved to New York when I was 20 that I made any kind of commitment.

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.

When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

My dream job would be starring in a lead role on a Broadway musical.

I was an actor in New York, dude.

Immediately after school, I did a lot of regional theater. I was in Berkeley and Princeton and Minneapolis and all over the country doing wonderful plays for the local audiences.

I wasn't sure what it would take to make it in the theater, but despite the struggle, that was all I ever really wanted.

I was always the kid who was putting on plays, and so I have no idea how to describe it. I just have always wanted to be an actor.

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

It wasn't until 2013 that I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do from six, but I didn't know how to get there other than working really hard and going to New York and doing theater like I saw on the bios of some of my favorite actors.

I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my dream.

Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first tap audition. It was for the 1st national equity tour of '42nd Street.'