Acting Quote by Billie Joe Armstrong

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.

— Jessie Buckley

I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process…

— Heather Headley

I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.

— Kristian Nairn

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

— Alexander Hanson

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical…

— Leslie Easterbrook

I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating for me.…

— Julia Stiles

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

— Casey Wilson

I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.

— Christina Hendricks

When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The…

— Anonymous

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do

— Ednita Nazario

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

— Gaspard Ulliel