Colman Domingo Quotes

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

I just had this moment where I was sitting at my desk, and I realized what it was that I'd been wanting to do since I was a little girl - and that was act.

I never thought I was going to be an actor.

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

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

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.

I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.

I initially started making videos about my hair because I was struggling to style it and didn't know where to find help. Similarly, I started creating comedy content and doing characters and talking about things that were important to me because I didn't find a place to do that in the career that I wanted as an actress.

I think I was born to be an actor.

I wanted to be performer; like, I used to dance at weddings. I felt acting was my calling, and that is something I wanted to do.

I always wanted to do acting, but I never knew that I would start at the age of 17.