David Morse Quotes

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

I always wanted to be an actress. I think that is something that I could be pretty good at.

I auditioned for the part of Cosette in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway. It didn't work out.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth.

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.

I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.

I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

When I saw 'Legally Blonde' on Broadway, I rang my agent and said 'I want to be seen for this,' but the rest weren't big choices, really. 'Hedda Gabler' was a phone call offering it to me, and as I've said before quite embarrassingly, I didn't know the play, so I didn't sit there thinking 'I would now like to tackle Ibsen.'

Whether or not I would be able to be an actor without the music I'm not sure, but I feel pretty lucky to do it.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I never pictured myself in California. I just thought I would be a character actress in New York on the stage. I never really had that stardom goal; I just wanted to be able to work as an actress and not as a waitress.