Eric Johnson Quotes

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 discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doing school plays, I loved it so much I didn't want it to end. I feel like I'm exactly the same as when I was doing plays at school, to be honest.

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

I started at drama school at 18.

I knew I was good at sports, and I knew I loved acting and performing, so I really dove into that, and school always became secondary.

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.'

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.

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.

I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

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'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.