Lars von Trier Quotes

I was a stage-struck kid.

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

I want to delve into the world of performing.

What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.

I just love working with actors in general.

I started acting when I was 9.

Drama is where I always thought I would go.

I do work on stage as an actor. I do films as well. Television, I haven't done much.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I just like to act.

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

I like actors - I used to be one.

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.