Sarah Steele Quotes

The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater around, I work at the National Theater, the Old Vic - which I'm sure you've heard of because it's the one Kevin Spacey runs - and I play the most amazing roles and work with the most amazing directors.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

I work with different actors with varied degrees of experience.

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

When I was a kid, to me, the Evergreen Players were the big time.

For me, acting is doing.

This acting was very hard work.

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.