Jamie Blackley Quotes

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three and a half.

I didn't like the idea of acting back in school. Both my brothers were into it.

Guy asked me, 'Scat, what is there left for you to do?' And I said, 'A Broadway play, man!' Can you dig it? That's the only thing I never done. I'd like to say I had.

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

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

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.

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

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

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

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.

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater around, I work at the National Theater, the Old Vic - which I'm sure you've heard of because it's the one Kevin Spacey runs - and I play the most amazing roles and work with the most amazing directors.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.