Suranne Jones Quotes

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

I would love to play a fun character. Like, I would love to be in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night.' I love that play. I'd play Edmond or Jamie. I don't care which.

We studied so much Shakespeare in drama school and I'd like to go back to that. I'd really throw myself into something that would probably petrify me. Tennessee Williams. Something juicy.

I always wanted to work on Broadway. That's something I always wanted to do.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

I love acting. I love singing. Eventually, I'd love to go on Broadway. I love New York so much.

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

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!

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.