Ana de Armas Quotes

When I was twelve, I heard about the National Theater School, and I told my parents, 'That's what I want to do.' And that was it.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

I started my career as an actor, but I've been a director for 15 years now.

I was quite frustrated by school and found solace in going to the drama studio, doing stupid voices, and being an idiot. I then went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama and signed with a great agent in my third year.

I never went to drama school. It's a brilliant thing for the right type of person, but I threw myself in the deep end.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

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

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.

I'm a character actress.

I've been on sets my whole life.

I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.

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 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

Both my sisters and I were in Stage Door plays, and we did that together, just in, like, little small plays together. And we did that, and it was really fun, and we kinda did commercials, and it kinda took off from there. It was great; it's what I love.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

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 think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.