Jim Sarbh Quotes

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I want to go back into acting again.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

I've been acting for a long time - I started when I was 12.

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

I was in several school performances, mainly Shakespeare and comedic roles. I just accidentally became an actor. I totally didn't expect this.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I always wanted to go into acting.

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.