Leland Orser Quotes

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I've always felt like I've been in good shows.

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've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

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

Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.

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 want to act. That'd be so much fun.

I would love to get into acting. I really enjoy acting - portraying other personalities and approaching different levels and whatnot - that would be awesome.

I was always toying with the idea of acting.

I definitely caught acting bug.

As you know, before entering the glamorous world of Bollywood, I was into theatre, where I played varied roles, from a lover boy to a servant.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.