Morfydd Clark Quotes

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

I'm a stage actor. You know, I was - I cut my teeth on stage, you know. So I've always had a love affair with the stage, first off, what I was raised in, you know.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

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 knew I wanted to act since I was 10, but I didn't actually start acting until I was in high school. My favorite play was 'Lilies of the Field.'

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so foolish that I hadn't done a play for such a long time that I wanted to go back and really kind of reach out for a classical career.

I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.