Estelle Parsons Quotes

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.

I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

An actor has to embody a role.

I'm a drama nerd.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children's theater, an audition for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'

Acting has always been my passion.

I grew up performing in theatre.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I would love to have the opportunity to do a play.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

Well, I was a drama kid.

I started acting when I was 9.

I can't wait until I get to play the fat guy in the office.

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.