Doris Eaton Travis Quotes

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

Acting is the way I make my living.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

I just like to act.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

Acting is a youthful profession.

I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

Actors are a race.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.

I hope to someday be a great actress and a wonderful performer.

I am the only one in my family to get into acting.

I just hope to keep doing film and TV and eventually Broadway. It's definitely what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I am just an actor, and this is my job. What I am doing is not extraordinary.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about working in the theater.

I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew that was my business.

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.