Letitia Wright Quotes

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I don't care much about acting.

In the past, I've done some covering. My first show in New York, I covered three guys in 'Jersey Boys.' I think it was always something that was helpful for keeping my head on straight.

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and hoping you're delivering the lines right with no treatment beforehand.

As an actor, I love a challenge.

I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

Acting takes courage.

I don't know why, but I was really good in that first play.

I'm definitely interested in acting. I've done it in my past. I know I can do it, let's put it that way. And it's so much fun.

In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'