“I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.” PeopleThinkingArtistActorsLevelsSpecialEastChicagoSensibilityCoastMidwestEast CoastConfluenceSpecial People Author:Daniel Sunjata
“I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.” MenLongTwoShowsBigsWantedGuyActorsNew YorkCitizensBandLong TimeChicago Author:Jake M. Johnson
“In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.” PeopleYearsRealPlayUsedActorsRealizingPayRolesCasesAudienceStageTelevisionDramaYears AgoExtraordinaryLocalsHotelChicagoRepresentationTelephonesNever QuitSymbolicGangstersVividness Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.” SelfHardActorsToughFellowsChicago Author:Bill Murray