Lynn Whitfield Quotes

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I've always done stuff on stage, so it feels very natural.

I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I participated in the talent shows and the school plays - all of 'em.

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

I'm most at home on the stage.

When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Cheese Man. I got a taste of the limelight, and I just couldn't stop. It was a way for me to be the artistic, geeky kid that I was, and not get beat up.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.

You and I are the two best actors in America.

I remember seeing my sister in a play when I was very young, and I remember telling my folks, 'I want to do that.'