Acting History Quotes

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

Well, I was a drama kid.

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

I have grown up watching plays at Shivaji Mandir and used to participate in plays in school, too.

Well oddly enough, I liken the years at MGM, and I was there for about eight years, to doing stock, what we used to call repertory or stock, playing a whole bunch of different roles.

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

I feel like I've been around performance my whole life. My mom and uncle had done plays.

I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London and did the Royal Court, the National, 'King Lear' at the Manchester Royal Exchange. I did little bits of comedy, like 'Rab C Nesbitt,' but I wasn't predominantly about comedy.

My character started off on 'Chicago P.D.' as the brother to Detective Jake Halstead, and then I also played on 'Chicago Fire.' So, I really worked on both shows before 'Chicago Med' even started.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

I played the Piccadilly Theater with "Gypsy" and also the Old Vic, and I've done other shows in London, but not for 40 years.

'Superbad' was my first movie, but I've been acting since I was seven.

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

Some people don't realize that I've had a career pre-commercials.

It used to just be a SAG card, and then you got an AFTRA card. I got my AFTRA card doing a commercial in Atlanta. I got my SAG card doing a beer commercial from 100 years ago; it was one of the first national commercials with a family in it that was black and normal, and I played the daughter.

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

I've played heavy characters in my first two films.

'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.