Christian Cooke Quotes

I want to be an actor.

I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester.

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

I can work every day of the year. TV is easy. My call's at 8:30 a.m. I'd like to break out of the comedy thing and take a shot at something serious like theater. The off-season allows me to do movies, but I'm not tired of TV yet. There's nothing like it. I've got the best of both worlds.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

Even more than the comedy thing, I really wanted to be an actor.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

It's funny, 90 percent of what I've done has been television, and I never really wanted to do it that much. I was really interested in film and theater. What's ironic is that when I started doing television, I did a bunch of amazing shows all in a row, starting with The Corner.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

Film and television as a medium has only very recently begun to be taught at the great drama schools in the UK. When I was at drama school in the UK, I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, "We've taught you Anton Chekhov and William Shakespeare, you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial."

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you going to go back to television?" It's an interesting place.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

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.