John David Washington Quotes

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

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

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

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

I'd like to do a play in New York.

I would love to play Richard III.

Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.

When I was younger, I was living in that green room and accompanying them to all the different theaters that they worked at. So, that has always remained a nostalgic place for me and also one of great admiration. I was just so grateful that that passion they have for theater translated to me, because I always loved seeing it.

I'm as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching 'The Book of Mormon.'

Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on shows. But it was just a fun thing to do; I never thought about it as a profession. That started as a fluke; my mother had a friend who was an artist with a theater company, and I started going there after school because my mom knew I'd be safe.

I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.

My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.

Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.

I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

I played Shylock in my school's staging of 'Merchant of Venice.'

My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.