Lauren Ashley Carter Quotes

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

I'm a dramatist.

I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.