Theatre Background Quotes

If I had planned to be a singer, I would have got trained. In fact, I was more into theatre and plays while growing up.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

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

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

I tend to make bolder and more interesting choices after I've done theatre.

'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.

I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.

I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald.

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years.

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

I don't have any acting or theatre background.

I don't really have a theatre background at all.

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.

I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.

I was doing theatre when somebody noticed me and referred me to Raju Hirani. And Raju saw me on camera, and there, I was a heavy guy with long hair. But I got selected for the role of Joy in '3 Idiots.'

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.