Repertory Quotes

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

Safe Men (1998) was exhausting, although I had a great time on it. I have a special place in my heart for Safe Men. That was a true independent film, in a budget sense. There were no trailers. Steve (Steve Zahn) and I were hanging out. It was guerrilla filmmaking. But we had a blast. And such good actors. For such a low budget, we had top rate actors, Michael Lerner, Harvey Fierstein. Steve Zahn, by far, one of the best actors I have ever worked with. He is a truly gifted actor. Skilled. He comes from the stage, he`s from ART (American Repertory Theater). He`s a farm boy turned theater actor, turned film actor. He builds barns and hunts deer and drinks beer and drives a Chevy Nova. He`s a man, he`s a real man.

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.

I`ve grown up doing repertory theatre where I`ve gotten to do all kinds of roles, and then there I was cast on St. Elsewhere for six years.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

Plays that had been done in the West End were available for production purposes by repertory. They were mostly light comedies and a lot of thrillers.

(Rivertown Repertory Theatre in Kenner came out ahead, too.) We were lucky, ... We had a little bit of roof and water damage and our awning blew off. That was it.