Mikaela Hoover Quotes

At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.

Since when I was little, I would always write a script and tell my sister, 'Read this line. I'm going to film it.'

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.

My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.

I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

I did some school plays in elementary school, but 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 was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

When I was seven, my mom took my twin sister and me to a play. I remember being fascinated about life onstage.

I briefly flirted with the idea of more stable career choices but they never excited me. I know it's a bit of a cliche but I remember doing school plays in primary school and feeling at home on the stage.

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.

I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing world of storytelling. I saw a production of Hamlet, and I didn't know Hamlet died in the end.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.