“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.” SchoolTeacherDramaHigh SchoolTheater Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.” WellsSchoolFocusPlayerDecidedTheaterQuittingLeagueScholarshipVolleyballIvyI QuitIvy LeagueVolleyball PlayerIvy League Schools Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.” FirstsSchoolLeftActingSkillsTheaterTownsCamerasBackgroundsSmall TownMovie Theater Author:Franka Potente
“When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.” FirstsStillsSchoolActingTheaterGraduatesHoustonGraduate SchoolUndergraduate Author:Jim Parsons
“I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.” PeopleSchoolTogetherMovingArtistTheaterFishesConcertsSchools Of Fish Author:Phylicia Rashad
“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.” ShowsDreamBigsSchoolActorsCommunityNew YorkTheaterCaliforniaNyuSchools And Community Author:Christine Taylor
“I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.” ThinkingYearsSchoolVoiceTheaterMusicalMusical TheaterForteLegit Author:Cristin Milioti
“I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.” KidsSchoolNightFallProgramTheaterEvery NightAfter SchoolAfter School Programs Author:Scoot McNairy
“Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.” TryingSchoolFiguresHugeTheaterMusicalMy FavoriteBack WhenTouchstonesSweeneySweeney Todd Author:Eric McCormack
“Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.” LittlesDoneCharacterSchoolActingTheaterIndependentAustralian Author:Jacqueline McKenzie
“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.” SchoolActivityTheaterTeenagerSettlingExtracurricular Activities Author:Morgan Freeman
“I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.” ThinkingChildrenPersonsMadeSchoolGuyFunParticularTypeHigh SchoolTheaterVulnerable Author:Craig Brewer
“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 did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.” SchoolCollegeHigh SchoolTheater Author:Seth MacFarlane
“In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.” KnowsYearsKindSchoolStarsDarkTheaterScreensPrimariesAtmosphereUnclesMovie StarLightingPrimary School Author:Andrew Lau
“I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.” SchoolHigh SchoolTheaterManagers Author:Michael Rady
“The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.” DoneSchoolStudyTheater Author:Robert Edmond Jones
“I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.” KindWantedSchoolLawActorsProcessChallengesComedyJudgingPoliticianTheaterRehearsalLaw SchoolSmittenWorking With Others Author:Rashida Jones
“I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with her when I was starting out in my career. How to place my voice from a very relaxed position was all wonderfully reminiscent of going back to the basics. But I always like to do that with any role that I do, to dismantle it and put it all back together again.” SchoolTogetherVoiceCareersRolesTeacherPositionDramaTheaterExtraordinaryStartingRelaxedBack TogetherBasicsStarting OutTogether AgainBack Together Again Author:Ben Kingsley
“My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.” SchoolTheaterThis DayPerformers Author:Nick Offerman
“Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.” SchoolGirlTheaterCatholicMusicalArtisticObsessedCatholic SchoolMusical Theater Author:Daniela Bobadilla
“I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasnt getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.” WorldWritingTryingSchoolTogetherActingHigh SchoolProgramPaidTheaterClosestBugsJuniorsElementary SchoolJunior HighLiving TogetherClosest FriendsAbram Author:Greg Grunberg
“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.” WorldGivingIdeasRealCharacterGovernmentEyeSchoolSexTermChurchMoralOpinionSocietyFieldsMetsAmbitionTheaterUniversityMeritRealmsLazyCrownsStampsArenaPublic OpinionCradleFixingSpursPretensionCrucibleOutrunTribunals Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!” IfsFirstsHas BeensI CanWantedSchoolYoungPassionCan DoActingMinutesStageHigh SchoolFirst TimeDoctorsTheaterMy PassionFreshmanDay LifeI Can Do This Author:Sophia Bush
“I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.” FirstsStillsPlaySchoolAmericaLinesMoonTheaterArchitectBanquets Author:Mako Iwamatsu
“In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.” IfsWantPlaySchoolSummerHigh SchoolTheaterLocalsCampsMichigan Author:James Wolk
“A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.” PeopleThinkingWantedSchoolFeltCollegeTheaterCompetitionPursue Author:Gillian Jacobs
“Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.” PeopleFirstsRealRunningSchoolStudentsHigh SchoolOrganizationTheaterOriginalsUniversityCastsPerformingVanderbilt Author:Nancy Allen
“I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.” WantedSchoolCareersMinutesCollegeDegreesTheaterMusicalPursuePursuedMusical Theater Author:Nancy Allen
“I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.” SchoolStudentsInvolvedTheaterProductionsAmbitiousNerdyGood Students Author:Sara Canning
“In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didnt see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think Ive been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.” ThinkingYearsBigsWantedSchoolTurnsCoursesActorsTelevisionHigh SchoolTheaterEmbarrassedCliche Author:Mare Winningham
“I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.” DreamSchoolChanceMinesTheater Author:Matthew Settle
“I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.” FirstsSchoolTogetherFilmFoundSocialDifficultCommunityActingBoysStudentsInvolvedFirst TimeTheaterMassiveClassroomHobbiesOutletsElementary School Author:Holland Roden
“I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.” StillsDifferentStoriesWantedSchoolCoursesAudienceStageFrontsTelevisionInvolvedHigh SchoolExcitingTheaterLuxuryGet BackBroadway Author:Dennis Haysbert