Thomas McDonell Quotes

When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.

At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.

My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I've acted ever since.

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

I like everything about acting.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

Acting has been very useful to me.

I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after a while I found myself wanting to inhabit other people's worlds and lives.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

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 started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

Acting was a hobby for me when I started out, or maybe it was because there weren't a lot of examples of me when I found an interest in this art form.

I'd always wanted to try my hand at every bit of the acting field.

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

I had wanted to be an actress when I was little, but I wasn't very good at it, so I tried a lot of different things.

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.