Jimmy Stewart Quotes

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

My aunt Marcia Cope-Hart was in 'Phantom Of the Opera' in San Francisco for quite a few years when I was growing up, so we would go into the city a lot to see her.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face.

As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.

I saw my sister in this production of 'Whistle Down the Wind' - my sister was a really big theater kid - and when I saw her do that, I was so obsessed. Those were like my first words; I was singing along to the songs. From that point on, I did theater, and then I got into acting in film and television.

I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.'

I would definitely go back to 'Kinky Boots' because that family, I think, is so wonderful and incredible, and my role and my part were just so fun to play. But I would definitely love to do other shows as well.

My first role was on Broadway from 1963-64 in Chips With Everything.' It was very well reviewed but not very well attended.

I am lucky to have got the character of Twinkle to make my debut. I not only learnt so much playing the role, but it also gave me popularity.

I made my acting debut in 1996.

Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.

I was 17 when I first acted on stage. I was a part of an Urdu adaptation of 'Spartacus' in the titular role.

I was only 18 years old when I started acting.

I took a break from theater after 'The Cripple of Inishmaan' to make some money, to be honest, and also to feel more confident in front of a camera, and before long it was two years since I'd been acting onstage and I found that I really missed it.

I cannot forget the day when I gave the first screen test of my life. The film was Gulshan Rai's 'Trishul' and I was selected. I was just 16.

When I got the job on 'Cursed Child,' I was doing another show in the West End, and I was playing a part that Marlon Brando had played.