Kirsten Dunst Quotes

Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic.

I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping.

I'm mad creative for acting.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.