Maura Tierney Quotes

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

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.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I'm a character actress.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

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.

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I've been on stage since I was eight.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.