Camila Mendes Quotes

I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

I had a Jackson 5 wig that I would wear around, and I would do, like, the dances from the Jackson 5, and, you know, my mother thought that was hysterical. So of course, that seed got planted very early, the physicality of comedy.

But acting had entered my world through older brothers. It was a basic thing: all that just looks cool.

I first started doing theatre, as my sister did it, so I wanted to do the same.

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.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

My sister's an actor as well.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

I'm as happy doing 'Postman Pat' as I am doing 'Hamlet.'

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.

When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

I've always been attracted to acting as soon as I did my first video.

I always loved drama at school. We had a great drama teacher at my secondary school, and she made drama feel cool. She inspired me, and then I did the National Youth Theatre in London.

I was always goofing around. I suppose having a father who was an actor made you think that it was a real possibility as a career.

My mum and dad's hobby was amateur dramatics.

I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.

When I do theatre in New York, I typically only get cast in comedy.