Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

I'm not this big Hollywood mainstream actress, but who cares? I think I just have a certain sensibility for smaller projects. I like intimate things. I think I do well in that kind of environment. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't love to do bigger projects. I feel everyone has their own journey.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

My life and career is my own adventure.

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

When I started acting classes, I was inspired. The truth is I never dreamt of being an actress as a child. But it just happened. When I started studying and getting on stage, it just came to me. I never said 'I want to be an actress.' It just happened. I started discovering myself and realized I loved it.

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.

Eventually, I had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. I needed to find my way back to Fleetwood Mac.

'Ragtime' was the most magical show that I've done. I had an incredible experience with that, with the show itself, with the cast, with the audience. The response to that show - my God, it really blew me away, the reactions to that show, the way it changed their lives and altered their thinking, their own self-discovery.

My dream was to make it in life. I didn't know how it was going to be. My brother guided me toward a wrestling ring, and I gravitated to it very quickly. It seemed like deja vu for me, and I said, 'Wow, I think this might be it.'

I didn't necessarily set out to be in musical theater, but that's where my path has taken me, and I've been loving and enjoying it ever since.

I knew from a young age what I wanted to do, but that's not the case for everyone. Some go through different paths to reach their destination.

At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.