Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

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've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.

Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.

Immediately after school, I did a lot of regional theater. I was in Berkeley and Princeton and Minneapolis and all over the country doing wonderful plays for the local audiences.

I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it through watching the Tony Awards.

When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very specific, real theater sort of like, you know, in England and the Berliner Ensemble - very devoted people. And I thought the theater was the greatest place I had ever been, and that's what I wanted to do.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

I would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater. OK, Supergirl is number one. Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway That would be perfect.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for three years, called 'Over the Tavern.'

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.