When you’re coming up in the business, there are so many people giving you advice and people prepping you for interviews: what to say, what not to say. When you don’t know the business, you kind of take all that on and say, ‘This is what I need to do, and I need to do what people tell me to do.’ Dan Amboyer Read Quote
It’s even hard for me to even watch myself, but that’s the case with most actors. It’s weird if an actor is like, ‘I love watching myself.’ Dan Amboyer Read Quote
Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started working. Dan Amboyer Read Quote
I grew up in Michigan and – where to start? I mean, my dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There’s no artists in my family whatsoever. Dan Amboyer Read Quote
Theatre is all about the process and the sense of community that is created. You have weeks of rehearsal, time to explore your character and get to know the other actors. There is opportunity to try off-the-wall ideas, to find layers and nuance over weeks. You become like a second family with your cast. Dan Amboyer Read Quote
When you’re the guy inside of a character and you’ve lived with it for almost two years, you’re always a bit defensive about the character, and you want to root for the character you’re playing. Dan Amboyer Read Quote
I did ‘Christmas Carol’ off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature. Dan Amboyer Read Quote
I’m from the Detroit area, just north of Detroit. But then I went to boarding school in northern Michigan, so a little bit colder up there. But beautiful, very beautiful. Dan Amboyer Read Quote
Growing up, I was the awkward, chubby kid. I had a few close friends, but I was the first one to be bullied. Dan Amboyer Read Quote
I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more. Dan Amboyer Read Quote
