I’ve always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls’ private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that. – Daniela Bobadilla
Well, in the theater, I think you’re actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
At one time musical theater, particularly in the ’40s and ’50s, was a big source of pop songs. That’s how musical theater started, really – it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage. – Neil Tennant
I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called ‘Mr. Marmalade’ after I graduated. – Mamie Gummer
I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next. – Edward Zwick
Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason. – Mark O’Donnell
I had worked for ten years in theater; I had worked at Second City in Chicago. Then I got to Hollywood, and I was like, naively, ‘Where’s my pilot?’ – Nia Vardalos
In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to pop in there and soak up the atmosphere. – Neve McIntosh
In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years. – Mark Waters
I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I’d love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play. – Jimmy Smits
I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English – which did no more for you then than it does for you now – then sold real estate and did theater for nine years. – Kurt Fuller
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing. – Madonna Ciccone