Christine Lavin Quotes

My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'

The first show I was in was 'Dracula' in 1975.

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.

I did my first play when I was 7.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

I like actors - I used to be one.

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.

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.

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 was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

I would love to have the opportunity to do a play.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

I did some plays in high school which I had a good time doing.

My grandmother took me to a play, and... there was a little girl on stage. And as soon as I saw her on stage, I thought, 'This is my job'... I was probably, like, 7 or 8. I was very young... It was 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'.

I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays.

The wonderful thing about acting is they're always going to need old codgers!

Everyone at drama school called me Musical Boy.