Michael Socha Quotes

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

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 went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.

I feel like I came to acting late in a way. I was about 26 or 27, and it was imperative that I make a living right away, and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

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.

When I was a musician, I had no intention of taking up acting.

For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.

My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role at the University of Miami, too. I do love that musical. To do it in high school and college and then to do it professionally - I mean, come on!

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

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.

Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started working.

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

When I moved to L.A. and joined East West Players, I started acting professionally.

I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.

After 11 seasons, I retired from football. Four months later I was in Ghana shooting 'Beasts of No Nation' as an executive producer.

When I joined the industry, people were not very appreciative of models turning to acting.

Once the second season of 'Haven' rolled around, I really started to attack this acting thing and finally admitted, 'OK, I'm an actor now. This is what I'm doing. This is my new career.'

I always wanted to be in Bollywood and the first step towards that was by participating in school plays. I would get awards for my acting and that motivated me to get into Bollywood.

I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this was going to have to be my career, and I was really lucky to get big breaks early on.