Zawe Ashton Quotes

I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

I'd love to play a lead in the theatre.

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

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

The first time I got paid as an actor was for 'Man of La Mancha.' So 'Don Quixote' has always been a thing for me.

My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

In theatre, I loved doing '2nd May 1997' at the Bush. Jack Thorne is a brilliant writer, and it was really exciting and felt new and different for me.

After joining theatre, I started thinking that acting in films was not half as challenging as theatre.

I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.

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

It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.

All the world's a stage.

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas. The idea of the chorus is really important in Greek drama and I loved the idea of including that.