Laurie Metcalf Quotes

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I like everything about acting.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

You know, I love acting.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.

I want to be always actor.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

When I first started acting, I never thought I'd be on TV or film. I always wanted to be on stage.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.

I have always wanted to be an actor. I was just five when I started acting.

At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.

When I was younger, I had no idea that I would be an actor. I had an interest in it, but I never actually did it. I didn't really expect it to be a career path.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

I've never been in an acting class in my life.

I had the acting bug from a very early age.