Dan Levy Quotes

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

I grew up on sets so I've always felt like that I wanted to be a part of the acting world.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.