City Quote by Chandra Wilson

I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack…

— Mahershala Ali

I always did plays, and when I went to NYU - and I didn't go to Tisch, the theater school, because I was like,…

— Steve Zissis

I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'

— Colman Domingo

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

— John Gallagher, Jr

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

— Michaela Conlin

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

— Jim Jarmusch

I got my Actors' Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in 'Peter Pan' at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first…

— Norbert Leo Butz

I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.

— Finn Wolfhard

I figured out that I was interested in acting while at NYU.

— Alexis Bledel

I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth.

— Betty Gilpin

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and…

— Lady Gaga

I moved to New York in 1989 and went to study at NYU.

— James Murphy