Andrea Martin Quotes

I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which is basically free theatre. You do it in pubs and small theaters and village halls across the country, and you work for a theatre company. You're part of a troupe.

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

I'd love to do Broadway or the West End. I'm sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but I did a lot of stage shows in Sydney and I love performing live.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

I'm a stage actor. You know, I was - I cut my teeth on stage, you know. So I've always had a love affair with the stage, first off, what I was raised in, you know.

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.

'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.