Paul Dano Quotes

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.

I was probably the only 10-year-old who adored Sandy Dennis.

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.

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

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.

I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.

I would love to be on Broadway. I would love to do a three-month run, similar to how celebrities do a three-month run on 'Chicago.' Something like that would be awesome. So, I'm putting it out there.

I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered.

Right after I left drama school, I had a job.

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

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.

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

My first break wasn't professional - I was in 'The Sound of Music' when I was five. I played Gretel, the youngest one, because that was what kind of took off for me in terms of loving acting.

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.'

I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.

I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.

I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

I liked 'Brighton Beach Memoirs,' which I did with Neil Simon. I kind of was playing him, as Eugene Morris Jerome, and I played that a few times at the very beginning of my career.

I sing; I started my career at 9 years old in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway.

My first live performance was the lead in 'Peter Pan.'

I've never done regional theater, and I'm getting to make my Broadway debut as a principal, playing a pretty cool part, so there are probably people keeping an eye on me to see if I'll trip up.