A Quote by LaTanya Richardson

The theater is the reason I am an actress.

LaTanya Richardson

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Actress Am Reason Theater

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LaTanya Richardson
American - Actress
Born: October 21, 1949

The theater is so big and dark and private. Nobody knows that I am there. I am relaxed. I forget completely I am an actress. I laugh, I applaud, I cry.

Monica Vitti

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

Alicia Keys

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

Amy Landecker

Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we come to theater - to see reflections of our confounded humanity - the theater has lost its way.

Neil Patrick Harris

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.

Gloria Stuart

I started doing theater, musical theater, because of my sister. She's a singer; she's an actress, too.

Gaten Matarazzo

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

Stephanie Corneliussen

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

Alicia Keys

I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.

Taraji P. Henson

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus. But when you become an actress, you want to play a variety of things.

Jenna Fischer

I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.

Samira Wiley

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

Martha Plimpton

Before the Polaroid commercials, my image was that of a solid actress, a theater actress who could do anything. But the Polaroid commercials were high comedy... Through them I was finally noticed as a comedian.

Mariette Hartley

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.