Matthew Lewis Quotes

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

I never went to drama school.

I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

I didn't start acting until after undergrad!

I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.

Since I was a child, I've been playing children. When I was little, I was the kid that you'd hire to do the reading or workshop of your new material.

I have always wanted to be an actor. I was just five when I started acting.

I've acted for as long as I can remember, really.

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

I always wanted to be a great actor.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

I've been acting since I was 7, and I always knew it was what I wanted to go into.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!