Kim Coates Quotes

After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

I honestly didn't know that I wanted to act until I was probably 12.

I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when I saw 'In the Heights.'

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'

I actually didn't always want to be an actor.

I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater. I dropped out of college and moved to New York and studied theater at The Neighborhood Playhouse. I did that for a couple of years and then got an agent.

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.'

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.