Jenny Ryan Quotes

I'd love to do Broadway or the West End. I'm sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but I did a lot of stage shows in Sydney and I love performing live.

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

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.

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.

To do a year and a half on stage at the London Palladium was a buzz that's hard to beat.

I wanted to get into theatre as I feel people take you more seriously than as a film actress.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

I'd love to go back to Broadway if there was a place for me there. I would absolutely go back; it's just a part of me.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

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 want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

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.

My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.

I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.'

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