Actor Quote by Jay Chandrasekhar

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

— Jeremy Piven

I went down to Chicago to try to go into a place called Second City. I auditioned for that and got in pretty quickly,…

— Chris Farley

I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle…

— Kate Levering

I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New…

— John Gallagher, Jr

I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some…

— Pedro Pascal

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered…

— Scott Speedman

I started off as a singer. My mother said to me, 'Go across that street to that theater dept. there's something for you there.…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Chicago is just where I found myself and found my voice.

— Chris Redd

Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic…

— Langhorne Slim

I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community. I had some friends who…

— Timothy Simons

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

— Casey Nicholaw

I used to be a wonderful auditioner. When I was living in New York, I'd audition every day. And I like to audition. But…

— Ed O'Neill