Ed Speleers Quotes

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I'm more an actor who can dance and sing if I absolutely have to. I studied theatre in college, but I studied drama, but I don't have that Broadway voice, and I'm not a trained dancer or anything like that. I identify mostly as an actor first and foremost.

I wanted to get into theatre as I feel people take you more seriously than as a film actress.

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

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

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 want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yoghurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

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

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older.

I wanted to be a Broadway star.

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

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

The theatre training is second to none in Ireland and England. You meet people who haven't had theatre training - it is harder for people who worked in TV to go into theatre than the other way around.

I've always been very passionate about acting. I appeared in panto in the Everyman from the age of five.

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.