Haley Lu Richardson Quotes

If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.

The school plays needed kids that were big and bold and weren't afraid to be on stage, and I fit that bill, so I was expected to do it. And then I went to college, and the exact same thing happened.

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 was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

I never did any acting in school. There was only one play in which I participated and it had no dialogues for me.

I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.

I enjoy politics, but if I had a third career - and I've had multiple careers - my third act would be acting.

I want to be a great actress.

I'd always wanted to try my hand at every bit of the acting field.

I really consider acting a high art.

I'm more an actor who can dance and sing if I absolutely have to. I studied theatre in college, but I studied drama, but I don't have that Broadway voice, and I'm not a trained dancer or anything like that. I identify mostly as an actor first and foremost.

I have been a good theatre artiste since my school and college days, but when I participated in 'Cine Stars Ki Khoj,' I realised that I could touch people's hearts when I performed.

I have always wanted to be an actor. I was just five when I started acting.

I always wanted to become an actress.

I really want to act and act in great roles, which have scope of performance.

I was always the kid who was putting on plays, and so I have no idea how to describe it. I just have always wanted to be an actor.

I want to act. That'd be so much fun.

In theatre, I loved doing '2nd May 1997' at the Bush. Jack Thorne is a brilliant writer, and it was really exciting and felt new and different for me.

What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.

The acting bug first bit when I went to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Old Vic.