Katherine McNamara Quotes

I'll die on the stage, man.

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

If it's truly a passion, and it's truly something you believe in, then you need to do it.

I've always acted, it's my passion and belief system.

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.'

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It's something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I'm able to do it.

I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

I did a show back when I was in high school - so I was about 17 - and it was the first time I was on stage. I never even thought about being an actor before that, but after that experience, I knew it was what I wanted to do.

I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.