Mireille Enos quote: "When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies."

I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. Tha...
ROB RIGGLE

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
DAVID FRIEDMAN

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York Ci...
JESSICA HAGEDORN

I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays an...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON

I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the art...
SARAH BUTLER

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, ...
JAMES EARL JONES

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of th...
JACK BLACK

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's...
HIROYUKI SANADA

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, bu...
SILAS WEIR MITCHELL

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary t...
TREVOR NUNN

In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's ...
HUGH JACKMAN

I'm kind of an old theater guy, so I'm sort of attuned to it. Like, when I go to New York, I...
RICHARD LINKLATER

I used to be on dance team in high school; it was called drill team in Texas. And when I started doi...
STEPHANIE BEATRIZ

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for mor...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm alway...
ASHLEY BENSON

I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why ...
MADHURI DIXIT

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater studen...
AASIF MANDVI

I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I m...
TREVOR ST. JOHN

There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a ...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then,...
JOHN MAHONEY

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
LAURA SAN GIACOMO

A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and w...
GRANT SHOW

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a...
EMILE HIRSCH

I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of w...
TROY BROWN

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a char...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time fo...
ERIKA SLEZAK

Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I c...
GARY SINISE

I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. ...
SUTTON FOSTER

I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would b...
JAMES RODAY

We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing...
KELLI O'HARA

I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where...
NOLAN NORTH

It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided my...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA the...
TATYANA ALI

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

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audie...
JENNA ELFMAN

When I was 4, my parents took me to see a musical, and I was like, 'I want to do that!' I st...
AUBREY PEEPLES

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with thre...
BRIAN MOLKO

I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, an...
JEREMY BULLOCH

I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of...
ANNA KENDRICK

I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. ...
ANDRA DAY

I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, &#...
R. J. CUTLER

I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going t...
DREAMA WALKER

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and th...
ADAM SHANKMAN

Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the s...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
DAN FOGLER

I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot ...
LL COOL J

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be fil...
DEREK HOUGH

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friend...
WILLIAM PETERSEN

I'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I&...
JASON BATEMAN

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR

Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films ...
AUSTIN PECK

When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're o...
BECKY G

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with ...
DAN GLICKMAN

I enjoyed 'Gossip Girl' so much. I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the cast of that ...
JOANNA GARCIA

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.
STEPHEN ROOT

New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especial...
CHACE CRAWFORD

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

I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I w...
CASEY NICHOLAW

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 worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did ...
NICO TORTORELLA

If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that sit...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, ...
ALAN RUCK

When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious ch...
TAMARA TUNIE

My days shouldn't be hard because I'm doing what I'm doing and that's playing basket...
DERRICK ROSE

I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. Whe...
MALCOLM GETS

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it ...
YELAWOLF

I know what I'm doing even when I'm wearing a pencil skirt.
SHAKIRA

I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm no...
DYLAN WALSH

I'm a big greens fan. I'm a big vegetable fan. I'm a big whole grains fan. And I exercis...
GUY FIERI

I'm not a big fan of cold weather; that's why I moved to Vegas!
DAVE KEUNING

After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very diffic...
LUKE MACFARLANE

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've bee...
COUNT BASIE

I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really l...
CAMILA ALVES

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for mor...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE

I've always said from starting off, 'I don't mind if I'm in a big budget film or a h...
DOMINIC SHERWOOD

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
DAN FOGLER

It wasn't until 2013 that I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do...
CHRIS WOOD

I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very h...
PAUL FEIG

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact tha...
ERIC STOLTZ

I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, provi...
HAROLD PRINCE

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a...
FAMKE JANSSEN

I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting probl...
MIKE NICHOLS

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very in...
BRIAN DENNEHY

I did theater for fun, and I didn't really think it was anything serious. I met a lot of kids th...
DAVID LAMBERT

I'm not interested in offending anyone. If homosexuality was an issue for me, I would have moved...
ALEC BALDWIN

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always c...
LONI ANDERSON

I'm a theater guy and a filmmaker. So when my community was thrown up in the air by the gas indu...
JOSH FOX

I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough m...
CHRIS WOOD

My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' i...
LOUIS LETERRIER

As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable do...
SANJAY DUTT

I would love to study musical theater in a big city. New York University and the Boston Conservatory...
DEVON WILLIAMS

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all abou...
SAM HEUGHAN

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
ROBERT MACNEIL

I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing '...
PATTY JENKINS

I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L....
PEDRO PASCAL

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do a...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN

I know that New York is big - there are huge buildings - but, in fact, it's quite small and cont...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

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Mireille Enos

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

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