“I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.” CountryLeftCompanyTheaterGermanyIranTurkeys Author:Navid Negahban
“And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.” TwoCharacterFeelingsCompanyTheaterActiveNyu Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.” YearsKidsActorsCompanyWeekNeededMetsMembersTheaterTowns Author:Trevor Nunn
“To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.” MeanJobsActorsCompanyTvsTheaterBelonging Author:Jim Parsons
“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.” FirstsSchoolActorsCompanyNeededTheaterExpandingNew Company Author:Charles Kimbrough
“I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.” LittlesRealKidsMotherActorsCompanyTheaterActressesLittle KidCubaDefaultMiamiLike Her Author:Yul Vazquez
“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.” I CanSelfActorsCan DoCompanyPlayerIdentityJokesTheaterCertaintyVarietyPermanentUnwillingTroupe Author:Philip Roth
“By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.” KnowsPlayMy OwnCompanyFrontsTheaterNeighborhoodTwelveYardsBack WhenBackyards Author:Carrie Preston
“I did my first show when I was five and I was the King of the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The kids theater company, I was the youngest one, so there wasnt a part for me, so they made me the king of the Oompa Loompas.” FirstsMadeShowsKidsCompanyFiveKingsTheaterChocolateFactoriesCharlieCharlie And The Chocolate Factory Author:Max Schneider
“I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.” UsedCompanyWatchesTheaterSilentWatch MovieSilent Movies Author:E. G. Marshall
“In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingPlayCompanyRolesGroupsReadyActivityTheater Author:Marsha Norman
“Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.” RealAgeFoundCompanyEnvironmentCollegeTheaterTownsAvailableNineAtmosphere Author:Christopher Reeve
“When I was in high school, I was the guy directing plays after class. I started my first theater company at 19, and my second theater company at 21. I've always been a guy who doesn't do well with the passive nature of being an actor.” FirstsWellsPlaySchoolGuyActorsCompanyClassHigh SchoolTheaterPassive Author:Matthew Lillard
“I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.” PeopleTermCompanyClearTheater Author:Matthew Lillard
“My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.” ThinkingIdeasDifferentWantedUsedArtistFunParentCompanyPerspectiveGrewIndustryGrew UpTheaterIndependentIndependenceRaisedSweden Author:Robyn
“I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.” KnowsTryingDifferentPlayRunningCompanyNew YorkDirectTheaterDifferent ThingsEclectic Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.” IfsMenPlayFilmCompanySupportHe ManFemaleTheaterDollarsGapsFewerDistribution Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.” StoriesFormCoursesCompanyYouthStudentsDegreesTheaterManchesterTelling Stories Author:Justin Chadwick
“My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.” WorldYearsTogetherFunCompanyAmountCoupleHusbandFairsTheaterGhostBunchWorking TogetherMy HusbandEpisodesMarsVeronica MarsGhost World Author:Lauren Bowles
“I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.” ThinkingShouldBelieveProblemActorsAsksSpeakSilenceCompanyImagineCrazyGoes OnReaderEmptyTheaterThoughtfulMore TimeBelieve In MeUncommonGood Company Author:Wallace Stegner
“My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England. I honestly thought that was as good as it got.” FirstsWarActingCompanyRolesHugeFirst TimeHorseEnglandTheaterCamerasHonestlyRoyalPrestigiousSmall RolesWar Horse Author:Jeremy Irvine