LaTanya Richardson Quotes

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

I'd love to do some new plays.

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

I was a stage-struck kid.

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

I would totally love to do theater.

I want to be an actor.

I would like a shot at Broadway.

I would love to be an actress!

Guy asked me, 'Scat, what is there left for you to do?' And I said, 'A Broadway play, man!' Can you dig it? That's the only thing I never done. I'd like to say I had.

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

My eyes opened, and the first thing I thought of when I could put thoughts together was I want to be in show business. Never wanted anything else. I used to sneak in the costume room at my nursery school and smell the costumes.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.