Chin Han Quotes

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.

As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.

I went to anything that was on at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. I was quite geeky. There was a production of 'Look Back in Anger' with David Tennant and Kelly Reilly in it, and it blew me away. I still think about it and look back on it as the moment where I decided, 'I want to do that.'

I would definitely go back to 'Kinky Boots' because that family, I think, is so wonderful and incredible, and my role and my part were just so fun to play. But I would definitely love to do other shows as well.

Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.

I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

My senior year, I got to play Maureen in 'Rent,' and I had more fun than I'd ever had in my life.

I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.'

If I get back into theater, I think I'd want to do a play. I enjoy singing, but it beats me up a bit. I get super paranoid and self-conscious about my voice.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I think I have a period drama face. That's the reason I've always gone back to the West End, because for me, that's where all the interesting roles have been.

I did my first play around four or five. I can't remember the first one, but I did 'Annie' when I was five.

I have always wanted to do theater.

I really would like to be on Broadway someday.

When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.

I started at Howard in the drama department. At the same time, I was a fledgling member of the Black Repertory Company in Washington, D.C. When I graduated, I had the great fortune of being in the Los Angeles production of 'For Colored Girls'... And all these years since, I've done stage work.