Patricia Heaton Quotes

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

I'd like to major in drama.

I graduated from Lehigh with a degree in journalism.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.