Rory Kinnear Quotes

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

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

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

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.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. I never really wanted to do anything else.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

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.