Rachel McAdams Quotes

My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

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 started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

After college, I was an intern at the New York Theater Workshop. In the mornings, I would build sets and hang lights, and in the afternoon, I would be the reader for auditions.

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

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

The L.A. theater scene is very different. The perception has been that people who love theater do theater in New York. The people who want to be discovered do theater on the side in L.A. But there are people who are very dedicated to theater who love theater in L.A.

I got into theater at an early age.

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.

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

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

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 think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

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