Lecy Goranson quote: "I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater school was kind of affiliated with an agency, and so I went on one audition for whatever that movie was, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' or whatever it was, and 'Roseanne' was my second audition."

What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I...
DANA DAVIS

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I coul...
JOSH DALLAS

'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theate...
TRACY LETTS

I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same ...
DARREN STAR

I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, ...
MAKO

When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at s...
TAVI GEVINSON

When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,...
TODRICK HALL

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather...
RACHEL BLOOM

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credi...
DARBY STANCHFIELD

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I...
WENTWORTH MILLER

When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to au...
JACQUELINE EMERSON

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, l...
DANNY BONADUCE

I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,'...
JOJO

The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin...
CONNOR FRANTA

'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in e...
JORDIN SPARKS

When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and...
VANESSA LENGIES

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when th...
MICKY DOLENZ

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls' private Catholic school, and one o...
DANIELA BOBADILLA

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t...
SHAILENE WOODLEY

I went on an audition. I walked in the room, and it was Leslie Mann with Judd Apatow. It was intimid...
WYATT RUSSELL

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, a...
LINDSAY PEARCE

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and ...
SAM CLAFLIN

Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my...
HALEY JOEL OSMENT

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a m...
JACOB LATIMORE

I started singing in my church choir, and then when I got to middle school, I had the coolest musica...
SHANICE WILLIAMS

Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was al...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only st...
ODETTE ANNABLE

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER

What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn'...
JENNIFER ANISTON

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I wa...
ADEPERO ODUYE

The first time I met Garry Shandling was my audition for 'The Larry Sanders Show,' with Garr...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of t...
ANTHONY EDWARDS

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DANIELA BOBADILLA

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never...
DAVID NICHOLLS

On the day of the audition for 'Sullivan and Son,' I had three other auditions all around Lo...
VALERIE AZLYNN

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JULIAN OVENDEN

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ALEXANDER LUDWIG

'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It wa...
PATINA MILLER

When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was worki...
EDDIE MARSAN

I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburb...
SEAN HAYES

When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually ...
DAVID HAREWOOD

When 'Twin Peaks' happened the first time, I was a stage actor in Seattle. I was called in f...
WENDY ROBIE

I got an agent when I needed one, when I had a contract negotiation for the first time. I was doing ...
SCOTT ADSIT

I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in schoo...
DYLAN O'BRIEN

When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.
HALEY JOEL OSMENT

The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' - I was five. And I think the second on...
KATEE SACKHOFF

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sw...
ERIC MCCORMACK

I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of sch...
KRISTEN CONNOLLY

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theat...
CLARK GREGG

I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater hero...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living r...
GEORGE TAKEI

I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I...
ELIZA DUSHKU

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watc...
TATIANA MASLANY

I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-scho...
DOMINIQUE MOCEANU

When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and...
YUL VAZQUEZ

After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I ha...
GABRIELLA WILDE

When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Aust...
MARY POPE OSBORNE

I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I...
LAURA OSNES

I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting...
IKE BARINHOLTZ

I was on the cusp - or thought I was on the cusp - of celebrity, the result of starring as an adorab...
ROBERT ENGLUND

In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York....
ZACH MCGOWAN

Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would ...
GINA RODRIGUEZ

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
KAT DENNINGS

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
NATALIE ZEA

I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi W...
DOUGLAS HODGE

I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high schoo...
GREG GRUNBERG

After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation t...
JOHNNY DEPP

When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch'...
AL FELDSTEIN

I taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent.
ALLISON TOLMAN

My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST

I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as ...
BEN SCHNETZER

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I...
ADORA SVITAK

I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convince...
ALIA SHAWKAT

I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.
MARTIN FREEMAN

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was '...
DAVID HASSELHOFF

'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a...
TED DANSON

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old th...
RAYMOND CRUZ

At 11, I went to Misha's school for two summers. So when I wasn't in that school, I was taki...
SASCHA RADETSKY

I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman ye...
DAN BUCATINSKY

When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do an...
SHANLEY CASWELL

Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll...
LEE ATWATER

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT

I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE

I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER

I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I ...
DAVID CASSIDY

The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
JAMES WAN

He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on t...
MARK WAHLBERG

My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-scho...
BRITT ROBERTSON

I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that...
JENNIFER GRANT

I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Pa...
TANIT PHOENIX

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He g...
JONAH HILL

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and ...
EVANGELINE LILLY

Do you know, I have no idea how I got 'The Avengers'? I'd left the Royal Shakespeare Com...
DIANA RIGG

My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE

I think that the first film I saw in the theater was 'The AristoCats.' I was like, 'Oh m...
JACKY IDO

I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater school was kind of affiliated with an agency, and so I went on one audition for whatever that movie was, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' or whatever it was, and 'Roseanne' was my second audition.

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