Victoria Hamilton Quotes

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

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.

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

I'm a Broadway baby! So, therefore, I started in the theater.

I learned from master teachers at the University of Evansville, at Juilliard, at Shakespeare festivals all over the country, eventually landing at Shakespeare in the Park in N.Y.C. That show transferred, so I got to make my Broadway debut doing 'The Tempest' with Patrick Stewart.

I studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which was founded by Laurence Olivier and has alumni like Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day Lewis. It's a very erudite institution; its ethos, really, was always theatre-based.

I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It's the least paid, and we all have these bills that we have to pay.

I wound up graduating from the Los Angeles County School for the Arts as a theatre major and then was honored to be accepted into Carnegie Mellon's Musical Theatre program.

Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and my first musical theatre experiences were at the Music Center in downtown L.A.

At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.

If 'Scandal' were to run for the rest of my career and prevent me from doing anything else, I would sign that contract this moment.

My job stays the same, whether we're acting by candlelight, against a green screen, or on a stage somewhere. Which is just as well, because I really couldn't do anything else.

I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times.

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre.

When 'Rent: Live' was announced, I bugged everybody. The creatives, Fox, the producers, my team - I have to be Mark Cohen. It almost got to a laughable point for me. I was like, 'I have to be Mark Cohen.'

I had the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.

I know I'll always want to come back to theatre, and I also thought if I can crack classical acting, everything else will probably seem easier.

I don't always want to do Cher. I've been doing Cher for 25 years.

I didn't start auditioning until my 10th birthday when I auditioned for 'Matilda' The Musical in London! It was actually the first time I realized that it was a career I could pursue.