Joshua Jackson Quotes

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

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've been acting a long time. I've been a member of SAG since 1982.

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

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

I started acting professionally at age 19.

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

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 started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.

I did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.

I always wanted to be an actor. My first professional job was at 19, working in New York theater.

Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.