Theatrical Ambition Quotes

I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.

I've always done comedy, and I've always wanted to do a dramatic role. I wanted to be a sheriff.

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.

I thought that's where I would go: I would become a Shakespearian actor.

I only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

I can remember, actually, seeing the film 'Oliver!' and understanding so badly that I wanted to play that part, but that I would never be able to because I was a 'girl' and Oliver was a 'boy.'

I always wanted to work on Broadway. That's something I always wanted to do.

We studied so much Shakespeare in drama school and I'd like to go back to that. I'd really throw myself into something that would probably petrify me. Tennessee Williams. Something juicy.

I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.

I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.

My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old woman. I want to be Maggie Smith someday. Not exactly like her, but that genre. I like that kind of humor - sophisticated, vain stuff.

The hardest thing about being an actor, for me, is that if you are the 0.00001% of individuals who wants to do it, you're a freak. And you're an assertive freak. Though actors are often shy, there's this tremendous assertive extroversion in you somewhere.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me.

Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that!

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.

I always want my daughter to feel that her mother is a fine actor.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.