Peter Sellers Quotes

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.

My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

My mum very much wanted me to go into the theatre.

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

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

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

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

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

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

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.

I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

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.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.

My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'

I was a stage-struck kid.

I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.