Laurie Metcalf Quotes

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

I loved theater and went to Circle in the Square's post-graduate program for two years and studied acting and directing and I loved it. I loved acting and directing - I really like directing a lot. Some days I think maybe someday I'll go back and direct something.

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'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

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.'

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

I'm a dramatist.

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama.

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.