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I came to theatre as a teenager by going to the National Theatre when it was at the Old Vic and sitting on padded…

— Roger Allam

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

— Rose Leslie

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

— James Broughton

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond,…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

It is exhausting to be giving one's all in the theatre, my first duty is to my paying public, of course!

— Gyles Brandreth

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

— Hank Williams

The theater was my mother and my father.

— Ingrid Bergman

I remember performing in Russia when I was twenty, and I stayed at this hotel with 3000 rooms. There were sailors knocking on my…

— Anne Akiko Meyers

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time…

— Ellen Pompeo

The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were…

— Seamus Heaney

I've sat in the theater for thousands and thousands of shows.

— Ben Sprecher

I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone,…

— Buddy Lester