F. Murray Abraham Quotes

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

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.

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.

I did little theater things growing up.

My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'

The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.

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.

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

'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.

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in 'Hairspray.'

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.

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 loved English at school and realised I would enjoy studying plays. I got into Royal Holloway. They had a little studio theatre where we put on plays, and that's what I realised I wanted to do. So from there, I went to the Old Vic theatre school to learn how to do it properly.

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

I started at Howard in the drama department. At the same time, I was a fledgling member of the Black Repertory Company in Washington, D.C. When I graduated, I had the great fortune of being in the Los Angeles production of 'For Colored Girls'... And all these years since, I've done stage work.

The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.

My first role was on Broadway from 1963-64 in Chips With Everything.' It was very well reviewed but not very well attended.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

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

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

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

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.