Felicity Kendal Quotes

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'

I started acting when I was 9.

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.

I remember my first role as a sunflower at nine.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'

I really love theatre, as that is where I started out.

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.

The first show I was in was 'Dracula' in 1975.

My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'

I was in my first play when I was 6. My older sister was in a high-school production of 'The King and I.' They needed children for a scene, so she brought me in. I had a costume and a couple of serious lines that got a laugh. I loved the feeling.

I began my career with Gujarati and Hindi plays in 1973.