Jayne Houdyshell Quotes

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

My first professional job was with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I started out in an educational touring play and eventually starred on their stages. That was the theatre that nurtured me to expand as an artist.

I did little theater things growing up.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

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

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

I really wanted to be a Broadway kid.

I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

I did some theatre straight out of school, and it wasn't anything spectacular at all.

It is good if newcomers have a theatre background. It helps in films.

I'm essentially an actor. And the fact that I got away with singing and dancing for a long time is still a miracle to me.