Christina Hendricks Quotes

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.

Going to dancing school, or being in a play, is a very familial feeling. You're around friends.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I'd love to go back to Broadway if there was a place for me there. I would absolutely go back; it's just a part of me.

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

I wanted to become an actor because I wanted friends.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.

I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.

I started dancing at age three and then got involved in musical theatre and acting around age seven. I think I've probably known since then that I want to be a professional actor.

Post my graduation, I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning, and I loved it.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

There was a little part of me that always felt like I was going to be an actress, but I never acted when I was growing up. I was a dancer. That's all I did, all day, all my life. Maybe this was just where I was meant to be, and somehow I ended up here, but it just felt right. As soon as I started acting, it just felt like it was meant to be.

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends.

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.