Lesley Manville Quotes

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.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.'

I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

Developmental readings are actually the best part of being an actor for me. I once spent a month doing so many developmental readings at the Roundabout that we all joked that I was an 'artist in residence' there. But to me, it's such a special time to be involved with a new play.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

My two boys have each done a play. They've done school plays as well, but one of them did a local production of 'Waiting For Godot,' and he played the boy.

I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.

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

I've been doing plays ever since school. There's never really been a stop to it.

I was Jenny in 'Jenny and the School for Cats' when I was five years old. That was my first big break. Then I got to play the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver Twist,' and that was the most fun I've ever had.

Coming up through the theater in America, while I have had success, I have had success in certain types of roles.

My mom put me into my first play at five at a local theater, and the next day after my first practice, I was like, 'This is what I want to do with my life.'