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I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwr...
JOHN KRASINSKI I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis u...
DALE T. MORTENSEN I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
LAURA HARRIER I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I m...
TREVOR ST. JOHN My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.
JUSTIN CHADWICK![]()
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
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MAKO![]()
After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni...
ELIZA DUSHKU I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburb...
SEAN HAYES I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces'...
AARON CIECHANOVER I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the ...
WES BROWN![]()
The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: K...
PATRICK FUGIT![]()
Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling autho...
STEPHEN COLBERT In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produ...
LAURA WADE When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, call...
VIVICA A. FOX I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'
CAITRIONA BALFE![]()
I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ...
STEPHEN COLBERT I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally'...
KEVIN RAHM![]()
The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play ca...
ADAM DRIVER I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did ...
NICO TORTORELLA![]()
By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being ...
IRV KUPCINET![]()
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in stude...
DEMETRI MARTIN I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, s...
KERRY BISHE My first ever-ever professional role was in a television show in England called 'Love Soup.'...
BEN LLOYD-HUGHES I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was al...
ZACH GILFORD![]()
I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer...
AASIF MANDVI![]()
I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Ca...
ROBIN MCLEAVY In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cr...
LAURENCE YEP The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, ...
CONDOLA RASHAD I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.
DREW LACHEY When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title r...
DOUGLAS HODGE![]()
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go ba...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology them...
TONI TENNILLE So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I&...
FINN WITTROCK![]()
I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosi...
LI KEQIANG![]()
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be t...
TOM HIDDLESTON Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE![]()
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was ve...
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I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see m...
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A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the fi...
DARREN STAR I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a m...
JACOB LATIMORE![]()
We can ALWAYS make a difference to someone, no matter what role we play.
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Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't s...
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REGGIE LEE![]()
I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line moni...
LAUREN WORSHAM![]()
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KATHERINE MCNAMARA![]()
'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theate...
TRACY LETTS after I die I wish to become a breeze to be able to touch your smile, kiss your eyelashes and play w...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI![]()
I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think...
ERIC STOLTZ After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing in a ba...
KIM ANDERSON It was a role that Mr. Fosse would have gravitated toward, a role he would have done if he was a bal...
GARY CHRYST![]()
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll...
ANGELA BASSETT![]()
I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally.
MARTIN FREEMAN I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to N...
ALAINA HUFFMAN I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I sp...
BETTY GILPIN![]()
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was a...
LENA DUNHAM![]()
The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin...
CONNOR FRANTA I was an English and history major, and I was in a class that culminated in a play at the end of the...
CATHERINE KEENER![]()
I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie fil...
CHARLIE ROWE![]()
When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do an...
SHANLEY CASWELL![]()
But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M...
TONY KUSHNER That was in that scrimmage at Washington University. We were fighting a little bit after the play. I...
ANDY MCCOLLUM I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play...
TICHINA ARNOLD![]()
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art unde...
BRENTON THWAITES It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call ...
AIDAN GILLEN![]()
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS![]()
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS![]()
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER I graduated from the University, my wife graduated from the University, my oldest daughter is a grad...
DANIEL MOORE I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks...
FAT JOE My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a b...
BRETT DALTON With home theater and media centers, there has been such an electronics boom within the last five ye...
GEORGE JAMES I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education be...
SARAH ZETTEL I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman...
KATE ADIE![]()
I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. Th...
KIM CATTRALL I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my...
JESMYN WARD I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law &...
CAYDEN BOYD South Delhi is such a rich area in Delhi, you could call it the heart of Delhi or a slice of heaven ...
PARUL WADHWA![]()
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
GARY SINISE I didn't want to write sketch comedy after 'Mr. Show.' I felt like, after 'Mr. Show&...
BRIAN POSEHN![]()
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI![]()
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN![]()
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN![]()
It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN![]()
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
WILLIAM WELD For years I would turn to James Joyce's short story collection, The Dubliners, in the Performance of...
FRANK GALATI I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I&#...
TOM LENK It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche a...
MATTHEW STEWART![]()
When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had ...
CAROL BURNETT
KEN STOTT
I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwr... JOHN KRASINSKI I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis u...
DALE T. MORTENSEN I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
LAURA HARRIER I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I m...
TREVOR ST. JOHN My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.
JUSTIN CHADWICK
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. JOE BIDEN I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, ...
MAKO
After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni... ELIZA DUSHKU I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburb...
SEAN HAYES I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces'...
AARON CIECHANOVER I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the ...
WES BROWN
The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: K... PATRICK FUGIT
Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling autho... STEPHEN COLBERT In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produ...
LAURA WADE When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, call...
VIVICA A. FOX I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'
CAITRIONA BALFE
I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ... STEPHEN COLBERT I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally'...
KEVIN RAHM
The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play ca... ADAM DRIVER I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did ...
NICO TORTORELLA
By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being ... IRV KUPCINET
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in stude... DEMETRI MARTIN I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, s...
KERRY BISHE My first ever-ever professional role was in a television show in England called 'Love Soup.'...
BEN LLOYD-HUGHES I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was al...
ZACH GILFORD
I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer... AASIF MANDVI
I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Ca... ROBIN MCLEAVY In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cr...
LAURENCE YEP The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, ...
CONDOLA RASHAD I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.
DREW LACHEY When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title r...
DOUGLAS HODGE
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go ba... ALEKSANDAR HEMON In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology them...
TONI TENNILLE So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I&...
FINN WITTROCK
I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosi... LI KEQIANG
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be t... TOM HIDDLESTON Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS...
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was ve... GARTH RISK HALLBERG
I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see m... MICHELLE OBAMA
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the fi...
DARREN STAR I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a m...
JACOB LATIMORE
We can ALWAYS make a difference to someone, no matter what role we play. LINDSEY STIRLING I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't s... MICHELLE OBAMA
Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role i... HOLLY HUNTER
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York ... PATRICK DEMPSEY The other day, a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Originals tweeted me telling me that the...
REGGIE LEE
I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line moni... LAUREN WORSHAM
I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and gra... KATHERINE MCNAMARA
'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theate... TRACY LETTS after I die I wish to become a breeze to be able to touch your smile, kiss your eyelashes and play w...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI
I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think... ERIC STOLTZ After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing in a ba...
KIM ANDERSON It was a role that Mr. Fosse would have gravitated toward, a role he would have done if he was a bal...
GARY CHRYST
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll... ANGELA BASSETT
I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally. MARTIN FREEMAN I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to N...
ALAINA HUFFMAN I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I sp...
BETTY GILPIN
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was a... LENA DUNHAM
The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin... CONNOR FRANTA I was an English and history major, and I was in a class that culminated in a play at the end of the...
CATHERINE KEENER
I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie fil... CHARLIE ROWE
When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do an... SHANLEY CASWELL
But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M... TONY KUSHNER That was in that scrimmage at Washington University. We were fighting a little bit after the play. I...
ANDY MCCOLLUM I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play...
TICHINA ARNOLD
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art unde... BRENTON THWAITES It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call ...
AIDAN GILLEN
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?''Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I graduated from the University, my wife graduated from the University, my oldest daughter is a grad...
DANIEL MOORE I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks...
FAT JOE My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a b...
BRETT DALTON With home theater and media centers, there has been such an electronics boom within the last five ye...
GEORGE JAMES I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education be...
SARAH ZETTEL I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman...
KATE ADIE
I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. Th... KIM CATTRALL I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my...
JESMYN WARD I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law &...
CAYDEN BOYD South Delhi is such a rich area in Delhi, you could call it the heart of Delhi or a slice of heaven ...
PARUL WADHWA
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
GARY SINISE I didn't want to write sketch comedy after 'Mr. Show.' I felt like, after 'Mr. Show&...
BRIAN POSEHN
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. WILLIAM WELD For years I would turn to James Joyce's short story collection, The Dubliners, in the Performance of...
FRANK GALATI I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I&#...
TOM LENK It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche a...
MATTHEW STEWART
When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had ... CAROL BURNETT
