Tim Curry Quotes

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

I'd love to go back to Broadway if there was a place for me there. I would absolutely go back; it's just a part of me.

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

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've been looking for a Broadway opportunity ever since I stopped doing theater.

I got my Actors' Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in 'Peter Pan' at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first show I did as a full-fledged, dues-paying member; I earned points in my MFA program, then went into the company after I graduated.

I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.

I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into acting, I suppose.

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

The theater community will always remain a big part of my life, and I hope to re-join the cast of 'The Color Purple' at some point down the road.

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

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

The theatre training is second to none in Ireland and England. You meet people who haven't had theatre training - it is harder for people who worked in TV to go into theatre than the other way around.

I was a very outgoing guy. I loved roaming around, hanging out with friends. From class 5th, I practised and learnt martial arts for about 7-8 years and have won medals at the national level. Then I trained in dancing on stage. In class 10th, I acted in my first play, and that's when I realised I wanted to become an actor.

I know I'll always want to come back to theatre, and I also thought if I can crack classical acting, everything else will probably seem easier.