Bellamy Young Quotes

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

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.

Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

I love theatre because that is my foundation. So, if I had to make a choice in terms of where I get the most fulfillments, it would be theatre. The reaction is so immediate, unlike with TV and film.

Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yoghurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.

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

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

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

I did little theater things growing up.

I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

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.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.