Cecily Strong Quotes

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

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

I started in theatre when I was 13 or 14 years old and did a lot of theatre until my early thirties. Off-Broadway stuff - off-off-off-off-Broadway stuff - and I do love it.

I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

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

My mom put me into my first play at five at a local theater, and the next day after my first practice, I was like, 'This is what I want to do with my life.'

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

I'm always looking for a good role.

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

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

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

My career is as an actress. I am an actress playing a comedienne.

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.