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I'd love to do Broadway or the West End. I'm sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but I did a lot of stage shows in Sydney and I love performing live.

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

In 1993, I was working at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.

I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven't had great experiences working in the theatre.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

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

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.