Theater Profession Quotes

All I ever wanted was a successful career as an actress.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

My first love is acting, not directing.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.

I consider myself a character actor.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

Work always comes first as an actor.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

I'm a choreographer and a director, and I have no ambition beyond that.

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are out of work, or actors anywhere out of work, are manic because you never know when the next job is going to come.

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

I just love that I get to play dress-up for a living.

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

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I can finally say I'm a professional actress.

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

In my previous profession, when I was a producer, scriptwriter and actor, I wanted to get an Oscar, I wanted to be popular in the U.S.A.

I never felt that I should have taken a 'regular job;' I was always lucky enough to be in regular employment as an actress.

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.