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“When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.”

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Author:Marla Maples

“When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.”

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Author:William H. Macy

“The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.”

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Author:Oliver Platt

“Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.”

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Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.”

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Author:Stephen Root

“It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.”

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Author:Christine Taylor

“Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.”

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Author:Anthony Mackie

“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.”

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Author:Jake M. Johnson

“I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.”

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Author:Scott Bakula

“I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.”

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Author:Steve Earle

“The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.”

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Author:Gaby Hoffmann

“I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.”

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Author:Lily Tomlin

“I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.”

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Author:Rachel McAdams

“When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.”

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Author:Ben Feldman

“I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.”

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Author:Sam Shepard

“I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.”

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Author:Richard Schiff