Tony Randall Quotes

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

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.

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

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

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.

Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

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.

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

I've been looking for a Broadway opportunity ever since I stopped doing theater.

When I moved to L.A. and joined East West Players, I started acting professionally.

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.

Yes, I'd really love to get a chance to tread the boards in the West End, that would be incredible.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.