Actor Quote by Lynn Nottage

In high school I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher…

— Forest Whitaker

My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real…

— Gale Harold

I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Alice Ripley was someone who had had a huge effect on me when I had gotten out of college and decided that this was…

— Tom Kitt

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and…

— Miranda July

I was brought up by a single mother. She was learning to be a playwright so I had an incredible childhood. She formed a…

— Lucy Beaumont

Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal…

— Abi Morgan

I definitely was inspired by drama teachers in high school named Mr. Walsh and Ms. O'Neil, and both of them were very formative in…

— Natasha Rothwell

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible…

— Melissa Rauch

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women…

— Reese Witherspoon

This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my…

— Sonja Sohn

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to…

— Mamie Gummer