Joshua Sasse Quotes

I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

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

I got intrigued by working in small theatres.

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.

At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.

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

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

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.

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.

The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.

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

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

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

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

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.

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.

Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times.

I've been in leadership roles on Broadway, and it's one thing to lead a Broadway company - you're with those people for a year straight, and you're doing that same show, eight shows a week. It's quite another when you carry on the story... You go beyond that, and you ride the wave of a character.

In 1993, I was working at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.