Brian Blessed Quotes

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

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

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

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

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'

I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'

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.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

My career is as an actress. I am an actress playing a comedienne.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

George Blagden is a great actor.

I've been doing plays ever since school. There's never really been a stop to it.