Laila Robins Quotes

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

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 never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

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.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

Both London and New York are brilliant for theatre.

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

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

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

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

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

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 want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

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.

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.