David Lambert Quotes

I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.

I used to represent Mount Carmel College in cultural activities, and a friend in the team told me to try my hand at acting.

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, 'Wow, this is something I really enjoy.' I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it.

I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group in Nottingham when I was 11 and went there for ten years.

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema.

The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

I did some plays in high school which I had a good time doing.

I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.