Naomi Scott Quotes

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

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

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

My mother's brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our house, and he and I would put on performances for my family. From that, this love of performing and acting grew.

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

I played comedies and dramas.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

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.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill.

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.