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My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I'd love to play Constance in 'King John' or Paulina in 'The Winter's Tale.' I'd like to go on working till I drop.

Acting is something I've done since I was in high school, but I never had a model in my life, whether it was a mentor or a parent, where I could realize that acting could actually be a career.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

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

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

Because of the fact that being a professional actor is not a career that is widely pursued back home in the Cayman Islands, I never thought it was a viable profession. It didn't even cross my mind. So when I knew I wanted to do theater, I didn't think 'actress,' even though I loved to perform.

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.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

You know, I love acting.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.

I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to dance at the age of seven.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.