Chandra Wilson Quotes

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

I never played an ingenue.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

I started auditioning, and the first job I ever got was understudying Amy Ryan in 'The Sisters Rosensweig' on Broadway, directed by Daniel Sullivan. I was 18 years old.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

My first taste of theater was my middle school play. We did 'The Jungle Book.' I auditioned for Mowgli, which I didn't get. I ended up playing a part as one of the monkeys.

Immediately after school, I did a lot of regional theater. I was in Berkeley and Princeton and Minneapolis and all over the country doing wonderful plays for the local audiences.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater around, I work at the National Theater, the Old Vic - which I'm sure you've heard of because it's the one Kevin Spacey runs - and I play the most amazing roles and work with the most amazing directors.

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 moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which was downtown, in the Lower East Side - to Midtown, where the theaters are. So I got to know New York, Midtown and south.

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.