Sarah Snook Quotes

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I'm just a stage actress. I'm very comfortable onstage.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.

My senior year, I got to play Maureen in 'Rent,' and I had more fun than I'd ever had in my life.

I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with acting. A professor came to the dorm where I lived looking for people to audition for an August Wilson play, 'Joe Turner's Come And Gone.' I gave it a shot, got one of the lead roles in the play.

I was so involved in the regular joy of school that I didn't do any plays. On a dare, I auditioned for 'South Pacific' my junior year. I showed up at the last minute to the audition and ended up getting cast as the lead. I haven't turned back since then.

I was an understudy in a show called 'One Over The Eight' with Kenneth Williams and Sheila Hancock.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

Acting is the way I make my living.

I specifically remember doing the musical 'Sweet Charity' at Stagedoor. I was playing Vittorio Vidal, which is a very funny part, and some other small roles. I couldn't really sing that well, but there were so many fun bits, and I just remember the tremendous adrenaline rush I felt from being onstage and hearing the audience enjoying it.

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'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.