Carrie Brownstein Quotes

I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I could.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.'

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I started in musical theater as a little girl in Houston.

I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater.

When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don't happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.

Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid.

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

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.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.

My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point.