Vicky Krieps Quotes

I remember having friends in high school that did the theater department stuff, and I always wanted to try it but never had the guts to. I was the class clown but could never really build up the courage to try it. I took one acting class and really enjoyed it.

I do a little bit of acting, but I wouldn't call myself an actor.

I never did any acting in school. There was only one play in which I participated and it had no dialogues for me.

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

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

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.

I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.

I was a theater nerd.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.

For me, the audition is always the hardest part of the whole process. Once you get on set, once you're in costume, you're with the director, it's so much easier to get in the headspace.

You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.

I've never been in an acting class in my life.

There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.