“Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.” LooksI CanRealJobsFightingPassionEventsExcitedTheatreBoxingVisualsBalletGood JobSpectacularBoxersSporting Events Author:LeRoy Neiman
“I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.” DoneJobsTheatreMore TimeWardrobe Author:Richard O'Brien
“Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!” KnowsWellsEyeJobsChanceAudienceExcitingTheatreOne Chance Author:Christine Lahti
“But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.” PeopleDoneFeelingsSchoolJobsFeltActingDramaMetsComfortableDecidedTheatreCoffeeSelling Author:Janet McTeer
“Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.” WayDifferentStoriesJobsFilmActorsRoomsTvsTheatreDifferent WaysPrincipal Author:Sylvester McCoy
“I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.” YearsPlayJobsThreeActingCitiesCompanyNew YorkTelevisionCollegeCoupleRadioTheatreTeenagerCanadaNew York CityThree YearsMontrealOntarioLive Television Author:William Shatner
“I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.” JobsActorsLostFailingStudentsProveEconomicsTrackTheatreManagersTicketsAssistantsLost Money Author:William Shatner
“The theatre and traveling through my modeling jobs, all of those experiences have helped a lot actually.” JobsTheatreModeling Author:Alexis Bledel
“That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.” DoneJobsFormPowerfulTelevisionTheatreStorytellingQueensVirginsShameless Author:Anne-Marie Duff