Adhir Kalyan Quotes

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

I would love to play Richard III.

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.

The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.