Sterling K. Brown Quotes

I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for three years, called 'Over the Tavern.'

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

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

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

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

I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.

Prior to joining NSD, I was briefly associated with a small theater group in Delhi called Sakshi. Saurabh Shukla, Manoj Bapayee were my seniors in that group. I performed a few supporting roles in Sakshi plays.

I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Miss Saigon,' were thrilling. But my love affair with theater started with seeing a production of 'Little Shop of Horrors' that my sister was in.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

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

After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway.

I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.

I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical play I did was Murray Schisgal's 'The Pushcart Peddlers.'

I could make thousands of dollars in Broadway musicals, but among the best experiences I had was doing 'Hamlet' in Milwaukee and a version of 'Cyrano' that my wife wrote for me on a bus-and-truck tour.

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.