Michael Mosley Quotes

I've always loved acting but never thought I could do theatre because I got the worst stage fright ever.

I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.

Acting scares me.

I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.

In 'The Sound of Music,' I was a von Trapp daughter in a white dress with a blue satin sash, and my line was, 'I'm Brigitta. I'm 12, and all I want is a good time.' I got a laugh. And I was so delighted, I laughed, too. Sadly, that's a problem I still have - onstage, I laugh hysterically at how funny I am.

Post my graduation, I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning, and I loved it.

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.

In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.