Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

I started backstage, making the tea, looking after the actors, doing stage management for two years.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

I grew up near New York, and there were a lot of summer stock theaters in the area. I started an apprenticing with some of the theaters. Not really acting in them - I did everything else: everything but act.

I got a job right out of drama school as assistant stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic. I've been lucky enough to stay in work ever since.

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

My dream really is just to keep working in film and in theatre.

When I realised, on 'The Straits,' that physical work in the theatre takes much longer than directing scenes, it was like a eureka moment. If you want to work physically, you have to accommodate it, and it takes a disproportionate amount of time.

My first assignment was a curtain-puller for 'The Curious Savage.'

I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada.

If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

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

We had four different sets and built 38 flats to use as walls, so we had a major production going on. It's so much fun when you're controlling it, but it's also so much pressure.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I've been on sets my whole life.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

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.

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous.

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.