I always thought it'd be cool to portray these certain things, make people feel a certain way. I was kind of fascinated with that, but I wasn't the type to do acting school or theater. I didn't have the best views of Hollywood, so it wasn't something that I was going to try and pursue.
I did a play in New York at the public theater, a Shakespeare play, and M. Night Shyamalan, who is the writer/director of 'The Village,' came and saw me in the play and asked to go to lunch afterwards.
I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater.
No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.
I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.
Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.
I think wrestling is the one that presents theater for people who want to see some theater but don't necessarily have to dress up or be quiet while they're watching.
The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.
I'm the journeyman actor that you saw in one scene here, two scenes there. I've been eking out a living doing theater - Broadway, Off Broadway - film supporting roles, that I'm just excited to be a part of the conversation.
I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.
The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.
I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
Thank God for the theater.
I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started.
I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.
I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing.
I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life's most intense, fascinating game - the game of love.
The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
Because of the fact that being a professional actor is not a career that is widely pursued back home in the Cayman Islands, I never thought it was a viable profession. It didn't even cross my mind. So when I knew I wanted to do theater, I didn't think 'actress,' even though I loved to perform.
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.
I didn't want to study theater or go to school in the city. I wanted the all-American 'Here's your quad' college experience.
I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.
I've worked with a few coaches, and I did theater camp when I was younger, and I think what was good was when I was younger, it was never intense Interlochen theater camp.
I like good movies, and I love theater, and things that I grew up loving, I still love.
An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.