Lucas Hedges Quotes

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

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

The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do with my mum and dad. A casting director came to pick people out for a new BBC children's series called 'MI High.' She picked me, I auditioned, and I got the job.

I don't care much about acting.

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

Acting is not in the blood. My parents weren't actors, but I imagine that if you've been brought up with actors, you have a lovely time at home and just want that to carry on.

Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

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

I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

I was exposed to acting at a young age. I was very lucky to grow up in that environment.

I'm not opposed to acting. I do like to act.

I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.