Kerry Bishe Quotes

I wanted to be a Broadway star.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

Acting is such a weird job.

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'

Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do.

During the fourth year of college, I heard about auditions for a musical for which I got chosen. There after, I continued acting in plays and improved.

I do work on stage as an actor. I do films as well. Television, I haven't done much.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

In actual fact, I doubled 'Twelfth Night' and 'The Avengers'. I was going backwards and forwards to Stratford. I played matinees Wednesday, matinee and evenings Saturdays, and the other days of the week, I was filming in Elstree.

My best work happened on the stage.

After I did television, I just felt I didn't have any more to give to the medium. And so I went back to the theatre and started directing and producing, and found I enjoyed it as much, if not more, than acting.

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.

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 was very fortunate to have gone to drama school in London for three years, and that was classical training in the sense that a lot of it was dominated by stage work, so I would love to go back to stage.

If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But you can't. Nor come even close to it.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

I admire anyone who does stage all their life. It's so tough, and it also made me really appreciate how lucky I am with film. You have to do your own makeup with stage, and you have to do so many un-glamorous things.

The theatre training is second to none in Ireland and England. You meet people who haven't had theatre training - it is harder for people who worked in TV to go into theatre than the other way around.

I played a very complex, multidimensional character - Piglet in 'Winnie-the-Pooh' - at age 7 in England.

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.

When I started acting, I did many films without even an idea of what the script was about. The film would start, and then we would discover what we were expected to do on the sets. Those days have changed.

Performing King Charles in Mike Bartlett's astonishing play in London and New York has been one of the high points of my career.