Trevor Nunn Quotes

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

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

I'd like to work at the Royal Court Theatre, please.

I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'

I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater.

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

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.

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

When I moved to L.A. and joined East West Players, I started acting professionally.

The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.

I see a ton of theatre whenever I'm not working to stay inspired. I love feeling like I'm a part of the theatre community and following the work of actors and writers I admire. I'm a big reader, too.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.

I have been involved with the Roundabout for over a decade. Every once in a while, they'd give me a call to participate in a reading or offer me a show.

I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight times a week to do a show. It's unlike any other business. It's just lovely. You feel like you're in a family.