Rachael Harris Quotes

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

I knew I wanted to act since I was 10, but I didn't actually start acting until I was in high school. My favorite play was 'Lilies of the Field.'

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15.

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

When I first started acting, I never thought I'd be on TV or film. I always wanted to be on stage.

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

The acting bug first bit when I went to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Old Vic.

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

I always wanted to do acting, but I never knew that I would start at the age of 17.

I'd like to act in Punjabi films and do some great roles instead of just dance sequences.

I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.