Sarah Snook Quotes

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from 'Peter Pan.' I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script - and I ended up winning an award for it.

I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten teachers that we do free performances for the children.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

I was in character all the time when I was little.

I've always loved movies and loved the idea of playing make-believe. That was my favorite game, growing up as a child, was make-believe, and to be able to do it as an adult is awesome.

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

I always loved dressing up and telling stories.

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.

I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.

It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.

I come from 'black-box' theater, where basically, you make your own adventure out of nothing.

If you can make it as a children's party fairy, you can make it anywhere.

As kids, we did see the Disney movies and the kids' adventure stories of the day.

I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.