Stephen Karam Quotes

I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for three years, called 'Over the Tavern.'

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

I love theater. Like, every time I go to New York, I see a play.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.

In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.

In college, I actually majored in Musical Theater. I was pursuing a BFA in Musical Theater.

Immediately after school, I did a lot of regional theater. I was in Berkeley and Princeton and Minneapolis and all over the country doing wonderful plays for the local audiences.

I'm a super theater nerd.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman year - with Vanessa Williams, by the way. She and I are still friends. We went to high school together.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing little community theaters and high school musicals. Then, when I got to NYU, I focused more on drama.