Michelle Dockery Quotes

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

Here in England, my becoming an actor was considered unimaginative.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm definitely gonna do this.' After that, I did little shows and started auditioning.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

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 want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.