Imtiaz Ali Quotes

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.

So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

I started doing theatre more seriously in college.

All the world's a stage.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I did little theater things growing up.

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

I'm a dramatist.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

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 always wanted to go to a drama school.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.