Joan Allen Quotes

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

I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play - and got in, as it turned out.

There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays.

I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.

A teacher asked me if I'd audition for a play, and I ended up playing the pirate Red Dog in a production of 'Treasure Island.' And that's where it started, and I really felt part of something special, but I still didn't think about it as something I wanted to do. I was just having fun.

At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.

I always had this curiosity about acting, but I was really into sports, and I never really thought about acting as a career. My senior year, I tried out for the high school production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and that was it for me.

I started doing theatre more seriously in college.

My mom put me into my first play at five at a local theater, and the next day after my first practice, I was like, 'This is what I want to do with my life.'

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.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

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

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.