Theater Studies Quotes

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I never applied to any acting schools. I don't know if that's just bad reporting, or - sometimes I just make stuff up.

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got high marks in it. I decided I didn't want to be removing worms' hearts for the rest of my life in Northern Ontario. I thought I would try acting. So, I went to England to study drama. I got Shakespeared out.

When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.

The work I did with Artists Collective led me to a scholarship at Uconn… It led to me getting a scholarship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and a scholarship at Trinity Rep in Providence.

I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high on my agenda. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.

I went to college and studied theater; I went to a theater conservatory. I live in New York because I wanted to do plays and still do plays.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Even when I was studying musical theater in college, after I would have theory at 8 in the morning and be on crew for productions until 11 at night, from 12 A.M. to 3 A.M. I was hanging out with jazz musicians.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.

I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater. I dropped out of college and moved to New York and studied theater at The Neighborhood Playhouse. I did that for a couple of years and then got an agent.

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

I'm studying theater and media. I don't really know why I took media, because I'm so useless with technology, though it's fun. But, I do love theater and am having a great time learning about all the practitioners and getting to perform with my friends.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.