“When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.” KidsMotherFatherTheaterNerdDescendingOrpheus Author:Logan Marshall-Green
“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
“I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.” WorldMotherActingGrewGrew UpTheaterActressesAround The World Author:Alicia Keys
“My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.” UsedMotherReadingTheaterActressesDrag Author:Alicia Keys
“My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.” KidsMotherCoursesNew YorkTheaterUnclesAuntNunAunts And UnclesIrish Family Author:Ellen Pompeo
“I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.” MenYoungMotherHumanityHouseRealizingGeniusBlessingMusicianTheaterTownsMovedRanYoung ManHotelTouchingAdequateGreat MusicDukesMemphisGreat MusicianOur TownHamptons Author:Charles Lloyd
“My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.” WholeMotherNew YorkGrewGrew UpHollywoodTheaterFabulousExoticWhole Family Author:Tony Goldwyn
“Now the Gielgud Theater is a very famous old theater, because it was originally called the Globe, and the Globe is where my mother made her very first professional appearance in London, was at the Globe Theater.” FirstsMadeMotherTheaterAppearanceLondonGlobesVery Famous Author:Angela Lansbury
“Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.” MotherTheaterDancer Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“I've been acting since I was a little kid. It was my escape from my day which had to do with a father leaving, and a mother not being home, and her struggling and doing her best and all that. But it wasn't fun. I would go into theater class. If she were a stay-at-home mom, I wouldn't have that discomfort inside that kept me pushing.” IfsLittlesHomeKidsMotherFatherFunActingClassStruggleMomTheaterLeavingPushingLittle KidDiscomfortStay At HomeStay At Home MomFather Leaving Author:Daphne Zuniga
“My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.” WayPlayHomeSchoolMotherActorsGrewGrew UpTheaterExtraordinaryDinnerCanadaMy SisterHomework Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.” LittlesLongMotherLong TimeTheaterShoesWidePairsUniformsCoatsJeansTrenchesTrench Coats Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere
“The biggest lesson we took was when Werner [Herzog] said in a meeting with us that the mother of all challenges is to get your film seen in theater. To finally share this film has been so gratifying. The way audiences have responded, too.” WayHas BeensSaidFilmMotherChallengesAudienceShareLessonsTheaterMeetings Author:Sam Pressman
“My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.” YearsKindKidsMotherFatherBornNew YorkCollegeDramaTheaterActressesQuittingLifestylePittsburgh Author:Ethan Suplee
“[My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going and a lot of movie-going and a lot of discussion about it afterwards, dissecting it and stuff.” MotherStuffTheaterDiscussionParksDissecting Author:Cynthia Nixon
“I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.” FeelsMotherDegreesTheaterConvinceWorth ItBroadway Author:Alton Brown
“My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.” YearsArtMovingMotherNamesGivenTermNaturalAbilityTaughtTheoryGrewCoupleDirectorsGrew UpYears AgoTheaterBreatheGymFourthTacticsPassed AwayNatural AbilityGodmotherAwesome Things Author:Erykah Badu
“But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.” ThinkingFirstsMadeCountryPlayMotherSeeingTheaterFrankDiariesParalyzedVienna Author:Tony Kushner
“My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.” YoungMotherGirlWatchesTheaterTheatreSeductivePlaygrounds Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.” WorldKindMotherNew YorkSceneHollywoodTheaterActressesDowntown Author:Martha Plimpton
“I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.” PeopleRememberMotherBlackGrowing UpGrowingColorGrewGrew UpHatredSkinsTheaterDrinkingSillyAfrican AmericanSatBlack PeopleFountainHoustonBalconiesHousekeepers Author:Dennis Quaid
“My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.” KnowsKindArtMatterMotherWatchesGeniusPaperLet MeTheaterAll KindsSilverSundayMuseumsPlatesFeedingSilver Platter Author:Jill Scott
“As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change.” SeemsWantedFacesLyingMotherFatherSawsTheaterSignificantMuseumsCouchesAnklesSignificant Change Author:Louise Glück
“James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything. The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater, and he looked at me and said, `Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.'” IfsTryingSaidHomeTogetherMotherNightStepsFourWeekMomConsciousSittingTheaterDressesMotherhoodGet AwayMamaMatthewUpstairs Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation.” DifferentMotherActorsBitsGoneGenerationsGayTheaterTabooDifferent Generations Author:Dean Cain
“The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.” WaySelfMotherFatherWorstPoetStandingTheaterStriveSexualityShouldersPityAdolescenceObsessiveSelf PityTiptoesWallowingKeyholes Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year'.” IfsYearsWellsPlayShowsWantedSchoolMotherCoursesCan DoCommunityNormalTheaterAgentsSoccerGradesGood Grades Author:Laura Benanti