Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually…

— Wes Anderson

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting…

— Kate Walsh

It always amazed me - it still does - that people offer me work. And when the theater was my basic bread and butter,…

— Glenda Jackson

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

— Tom Hanks

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

— Estelle Parsons

My work in the theater began to shift more towards young audience type of work and education programs for children, arts education programs.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

— Goenawan Mohamad

I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.

— Haris Pasovic

Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but 'L.A. Law,' which had all these megastars…

— Tom Verica

Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies that say…

— Jimmy Smits

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

— George MacKay

There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going…

— Ian Mckellen

I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week,…

— Billy Porter

The majority of great work that's being done in the theater is happening Off Broadway, where you can't make a living.

— Steven Pasquale

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all…

— Bobby Cannavale