Olivia DeJonge Quotes

I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

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.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom; she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.

I entertain for a living and I role-play for a living, and I can't help but continue to do it.

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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.

Acting is the way I make my living.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

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

I've learned almost everything I know about acting from my dad.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.