Samantha Bond Quotes

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.

There is an endless range of parts I have not played. I would love to do a whole slew of period pieces. I also used to do a lot of stage work, and I would like to go back to that from time to time.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

I knew I wanted to act since I was 10, but I didn't actually start acting until I was in high school. My favorite play was 'Lilies of the Field.'

I think I have a period drama face. That's the reason I've always gone back to the West End, because for me, that's where all the interesting roles have been.

After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London and did the Royal Court, the National, 'King Lear' at the Manchester Royal Exchange. I did little bits of comedy, like 'Rab C Nesbitt,' but I wasn't predominantly about comedy.

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

I did some British TV and bits and bobs here and there. I've been lucky.