Ray Walston Quotes

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.

I got intrigued by working in small theatres.

I worked in the theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for years and moved to New York and then to Los Angeles.

Performing King Charles in Mike Bartlett's astonishing play in London and New York has been one of the high points of my career.

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.

I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater.

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

I do most of my work on the stage, and typically once the show is over, it's over.

My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and it's why I even got in the door for 'Mad Men.'

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

Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

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

If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.