Laura Haddock Quotes

I remember seeing 'Aladdin' when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, 'Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do.' Mum said I couldn't be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, 'OK, then, I want to be an actor.'

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

I grew up a poor kid in Florida, and I was always in Florida living with my stepfather and my mother, and we used to, every year, sit down and watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' And I think to this day that's probably the foundation for everything I've done since.

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.

Every character I play is me.

When I was seven, my mom took my twin sister and me to a play. I remember being fascinated about life onstage.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

When people ask me what I think about when I'm playing, I picture myself as a 10-year-old girl, playing in the park, scoring a goal and then celebrating. That's when I'm playing best.

I come from quite a creative family; everyone's just doing their own thing!

If you wanted John Gielgud to cry, he could say, 'Which eye?'

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

I remember taking my stabilisers off my bike with my dad in the back garden. It was a small little bike, and it was called Poppy, had balloons on it, and was purple.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That's how I was portraying myself.

I was three years old. I had a go-kart that my dad had on a leash so I would not go too quick.

When I was little, my mom made all of my costumes.

I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.