Michael Ritchie Quotes

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA.

We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast.

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.

Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.

I was being groomed to be the theatrical caricaturist. And I know if I got that job, I'd never quit. So I quit. I knew I wanted to go into the theater... I wanted to act.

A play is a hard thing, particularly in L.A. It's less expensive than in New York, but there's also less of a commitment to people doing plays than in New York. So it's a strange battle.

I'm an actor of the theater.

We had a teacher in school who would organize dramatic shows. And she decided to put on a show about - I don't know whether you remember - 'Ferdinand the Bull', the comic script. However, she decided, you're going to sing Ferdinand, me, as a role.

I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

My first live performance was the lead in 'Peter Pan.'

I've worked with a few coaches, and I did theater camp when I was younger, and I think what was good was when I was younger, it was never intense Interlochen theater camp.

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

I am a musician who started acting.

I am lucky that I get to play a singer and an actress.

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

Acting I never worried about, but it's so strange that on-camera work is so much more technical than theatre work, which I would have never thought in a million years.

My job is that of an actor. As long as I get to act, get some interesting parts to play, get to be a part of interesting stories, I would certainly want to do it.

I participated in every spring musical my school did while attending: 'Pippin,' 'Little Shop of Horrors,' 'Once on This Island,' and 'Hair.' The great thing about those projects was that I was able to work with my peers who were allowed to work professionally and gained some insight as to what it might be like to work with pros.

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.