Blair Underwood Quotes

I got into theater at an early age.

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

I'm very much interested in doing actual theater.

I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.

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

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

I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'

It's hard to be on TV, it's really hard.

I can act... well, kind of. I'm comfortable in front of a camera.

I really did always want to do theater.

To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.

I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.

I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.

My dream job would be starring in a lead role on a Broadway musical.

My father said that I will be an actor, but I scoffed at him.

I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the writers.

Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.

When you do a good theatrical production, sometimes you dream about that 8 o'clock curtain call for six months.

When I do films, I get off-days. But, in theatre, there are back-to-back shows with non-stop rehearsals. It's too scary a thought.

I don't think there are roles that would attract me to do a long run in the theatre.

I grew up dreaming of being on Broadway and being able to do that - and 'Hamilton' - was awesome, and it was the hardest thing for the first few weeks, and then it was the easiest thing.

To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.