George MacKay Quotes

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I got a job right out of drama school as assistant stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic. I've been lucky enough to stay in work ever since.

I started backstage, making the tea, looking after the actors, doing stage management for two years.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

I love working in the theater.

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.

I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.