Theatre Aspiration Quotes

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

When I got the appetite for more and more theatre, all I could think of was trying to get back to New York.

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

I very much regret that I haven't been taken more seriously. I would love to have been at the National or the RSC.

An actor's journey is never fulfilled. We always look for greener pastures, better roles, better creativity. We all want to do good work.

I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered it for a couple of weeks, really. I'm a young Catholic, do you know what I mean. You're going to consider it.

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

I have grown up watching Marathi plays and craved to be a part of it.

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.