Fringe Theatre Quotes

I did fringe theatre for so many years, and then I got my first play at the RSC, which was an amazing feeling, but I was 30 and had started acting in my early twenties.

'Breaking In' shows what it's really like backstage at New York Fringe Theatre.

I tried twice to get into drama school and didn't, so I worked my way up through the fringe.

I haven't done any 'Fringe' shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where we all had this old-fashioned make-up on and giggled through our lines.

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.

When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was to, get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.

So somehow we've got to get back to making stuff for people that are not necessarily interested in seeing the common Broadway fare.

As a gold-card-carrying member of the nerd herd, I'm usually in the artsy, fringy, PBS-y kind of shows that change maybe five people's lives forever while leaving everyone else wondering if they can still make the ticket lottery at 'Wicked.'

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which is basically free theatre. You do it in pubs and small theaters and village halls across the country, and you work for a theatre company. You're part of a troupe.

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.