Andre Holland Quotes

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the 'Psych' off-season, I'm game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

I did little theater things growing up.

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

I would like to play Broadway!

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

I'm an actor of the theater.

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

I grew up doing a lot of theater - acting and making sets and costumes.

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.