Hugh Jackman Quotes

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

The hardest thing about acting is all of the other things you have to think about besides performing... Your image, your team, networking - not to mention the mental strength you need to be able to stay unaffected by the rejection that every actor experiences.

When you're trying out on Broadway, it's very hectic, and you're making changes night after night. There's a lot of pressures from producers to make some changes, and you're writing for actors who are in it - and sometimes the limitations of actors who are in it.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

Being an actor can be a cruel experience because there is no cooling-down period. You can be involved in something that's incredibly intense, but then it's a wrap and you've finished and you go home. I find it difficult to complete a job and then return to reality and find my healthy place.

A few years after I graduated, I was doing a play in Boston and was asked to audition for Christophe Durang's play, 'Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,' and I got the part. We were performing in Lincoln Center when, during our weekly meeting with producers, they that said they loved our show and wanted to take us to Broadway.

I never imagined that I would have a successful solo career, let alone one in musical theater.

As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

It's my life's aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such a protected species. People see the glamour part of it. But there's so much stress that often you don't even pay attention to the luxuries.

Broadway is intimidating. Don't think it's not.

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.

My favorite experience, in general, probably was the 'Little Shop' experience, which probably was terrifying, frustrating, and exhilarating and amazing, but because it was the first, that was the one where I watched the show just launch itself for the first time and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going to have a career.'

I always say, when I play the first few notes and people scream... if you're tired of that, you should try retail. What else are you looking for?

Broadway was weird.

I was asked if I'd audition for a part in a Broadway musical because the director just loved me.

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.

I was in 'Hair,' which didn't work in London, but it was a show we all believed in.

I always wanted to work on Broadway. That's something I always wanted to do.

As an actor, your life is filled with so much uncertainty.

People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.