Deirdre O'Kane Quotes

I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

Before I did any television or film, I did years and years of theater. Television and film stuff, even though it went on for a good, healthy number of years, almost felt like a diversion from theater.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.'

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

I could make thousands of dollars in Broadway musicals, but among the best experiences I had was doing 'Hamlet' in Milwaukee and a version of 'Cyrano' that my wife wrote for me on a bus-and-truck tour.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.