Marianne Elliott Quotes

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

Acting is something I love.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

Acting is the way I make my living.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

Improv is mostly what I've studied.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.