Harry Melling Quotes

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

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

I'd love to do a drama.

My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.

The stage calls my name.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

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.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

I'm a drama guy.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

I love acting. I love performing.

Any day acting is an amazing day.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.