Tom Bateman Quotes

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get to speak on TV.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I didn't want to be a Hollywood actress who every so often does a Broadway play. I wanted to be a Broadway actress who every so often does a movie.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.

There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

I would like to play Broadway!

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.

In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the 'Psych' off-season, I'm game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

Broadway is really my life.

I wanted to be a Broadway star.

When I first started acting, I never thought I'd be on TV or film. I always wanted to be on stage.

I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into acting, I suppose.

During the fourth year of college, I heard about auditions for a musical for which I got chosen. There after, I continued acting in plays and improved.

I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.