Jimmi Simpson Quotes

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain.

I went to the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.

I have been into acting and direction, but choreography is my first love.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

I did theatre a lot when I was a kid. Then I went to acting school in New York. I did a lot of behind the scenes in college. I wanted to learn while I had the time. I studied theatre and film in different capacities.

Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

I love working in the theater.

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart.

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

I don't really have a theatre background at all.

I trained in the theatre.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

Before I worked on film, I studied the theatre, and I expected that I would spend my whole career in theatre. Gradually, I started writing for the cinema. However, I feel grateful towards the theatre. I love working with spectators, and I love this experience with the theatre, and I like theatre culture.

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.