Ashley Greene Quotes

I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the piano in front of people, but I could act. I found that being on stage, I felt, "This is home." I felt an immediate right thing, and the exchange between the audience and the actors on stage was so fulfilling. I just went, "That is the conversation I want to have."

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.

He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, “If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, “Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously.” All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.

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

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

I always loved performing and being on stage.

Being on stage is what I enjoy.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I've always had a niche for entertaining since I was a little girl.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.