Laila Robins Quotes

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I am going to be a great actress.

I have always wanted to act.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

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'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.

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.

When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

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.

What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

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