Bella Heathcote Quotes

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high on my agenda. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

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.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

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.

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I wanted to go to theater school.

I'm a super theater nerd.

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.

My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as long as I can remember, I've always played make-believe ... It's something that I've always done, that I've always been comfortable doing.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.