Rory Bremner Quotes

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.

I'm a stage actor. You know, I was - I cut my teeth on stage, you know. So I've always had a love affair with the stage, first off, what I was raised in, you know.

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

I would love to do something dramatic. I don't know if anybody will ever give me the chance, but I would love to try it. I'm trained in acting and spent many years working on it, so it's just a matter of opportunity.

The magnitude of being able to make my Broadway debut as SpongeBob in 'SpongeBob SquarePants' really only started to hit me when we took it out of town.

I saw 'The Wild Duck' at the Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney, and it was one of the best pieces of theatre I'd ever seen.

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

Constantly, I've been asked to make a sequel to 'Beckham.' However, I thought a West End show was the proper way to go. Once we made the show, I wanted to make sure that I embraced the West End genre rather than just put the film on stage.

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

I would like to play Broadway!

In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the 'Psych' off-season, I'm game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.

I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

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 first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.