Acting Quote by Jessie Mueller

I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for 'Billy Elliot,'…

— Lilla Crawford

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 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

When I first moved from Chicago to L.A., I starred in the 'Vacation' movies as Audrey Griswald, and that was like the starring role…

— Marisol Nichols

I think the audiences in Chicago are really open. They're engaged and eager, and they don't feel cynical to me. Sometimes in New York,…

— Joe Mantello

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 flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

— John Goodman

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so…

— Willem Dafoe

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

— Kel Mitchell

There's not millions of dollars riding behind something - so I think a lot of people took chances on me and cast me in…

— Jessie Mueller

I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to…

— Anonymous

I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're…

— Bill Murray