Kerris Dorsey Quotes

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.

I did my first play when I was 7.

In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'

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

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

I would love to have the opportunity to do a play.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

I started acting when I was 9.

The first show I was in was 'Dracula' in 1975.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

A teacher asked me if I'd audition for a play, and I ended up playing the pirate Red Dog in a production of 'Treasure Island.' And that's where it started, and I really felt part of something special, but I still didn't think about it as something I wanted to do. I was just having fun.

I have grown up watching plays at Shivaji Mandir and used to participate in plays in school, too.

My mom put me into my first play at five at a local theater, and the next day after my first practice, I was like, 'This is what I want to do with my life.'

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.

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

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 like actors - I used to be one.

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 getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.