Elizabeth Banks Quotes

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I went to NYU drama school, so I was a very serious actress. I used to do monologues with a Southern accent, and I was really into drama and drama school. And then, in my last year of drama school, I did a comedy show, and the show became a big hit on campus.

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

When I do theatre in New York, I typically only get cast in comedy.

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I played comedies and dramas.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor.

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.

I am not a comedian, I am an actor.

I was in several school performances, mainly Shakespeare and comedic roles. I just accidentally became an actor. I totally didn't expect this.

I thought that's where I would go: I would become a Shakespearian actor.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.