Donny Most Quotes

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

I went to drama school and, after that, went to Paris to train at a place called Ecole Philippe Gaulier. When I came home, I realised I'd have to have a serious stab at it. I didn't have an agent and didn't have the traditional drama school showcase, so I started a comedy group with a couple of friends.

My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

Drama is what I'm really obsessed by. It's what gets me up in the morning, what I live for. But I'll always have a love for comedy because it was my first opportunity, and I associate it with my best friends, who I made during 'School of Comedy'.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

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

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

Definitely for myself, I find myself gravitating towards dramatic work. In terms of sitcoms, you know, I always tell my agent I don't want to be seen.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

I started in improv and went into different kinds of things.