Raul Julia Quotes

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'

I did my first play when I was 7.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

I was in my first play when I was 6. My older sister was in a high-school production of 'The King and I.' They needed children for a scene, so she brought me in. I had a costume and a couple of serious lines that got a laugh. I loved the feeling.

I did my first play around four or five. I can't remember the first one, but I did 'Annie' when I was five.

The happiest that I remember myself was putting on plays and pretending to be other people.

I remember my first role as a sunflower at nine.

I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.

I did my first show when I was five and I was the King of the Oompa Loompas in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' The kids' theater company, I was the youngest one, so there wasn't a part for me, so they made me the king of the Oompa Loompas.

I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.