Andre Holland Quotes

I've been doing plays ever since school. There's never really been a stop to it.

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.

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

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

I would also love to get into acting. I love being in front of the camera.

My mom put me into my first play at five at a local theater, and the next day after my first practice, I was like, 'This is what I want to do with my life.'

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

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

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

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.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'

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.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

I've always wanted to act since I was little.