Debra Monk Quotes

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

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 had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.

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.

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

I grew up on sets so I've always felt like that I wanted to be a part of the acting world.

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

I've never been in an acting class in my life.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.

I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

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

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

I never saw an actor and thought, 'Wow, I want to be like that.' It's just I wanted it to be part of my life.

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 in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.