Amy Winehouse Quotes

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.

I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high on my agenda. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

In college, I actually majored in Musical Theater. I was pursuing a BFA in Musical Theater.

I came to New York to study theater and stayed and was doing exactly what I wanted to do. It's because of that work that some doors eventually opened for me.

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued.

Theater actually took time to pique my interest. It just wasn't a part of my upbringing. I don't have anyone in the arts in my family. I wasn't brought up particularly cultured. It was always TV and film for me.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.

Growing up in Canada, none of my family were performers or anything like that, but I was terrible at hockey, so they needed something for me to do on Saturdays for me to get out of the house. I signed up for theater school on Saturdays, and I'd go for four-and-a-half hours every Saturday morning and learn about theater.

I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies' club.

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.

I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my dream.

I wanted to go to theater school.

My background is musical theater. I have a BFA from the University of Florida.

I was born in Japan, and I grew up in England, and I wanted to be an actor when I was a child because I had an uncle who was an actor. I wanted to do everything he did, and he told me to learn how to dance first. So then I learned how to dance.

I first started doing theatre, as my sister did it, so I wanted to do the same.

I started doing theater, musical theater, because of my sister. She's a singer; she's an actress, too.

I'm a super theater nerd.