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I used to like doing school plays.
I go to see my kids in school plays.
I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.
I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything.
A good place to start initially would be school plays.
I never wanted to act. I never participated in school plays.
I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.
I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.
You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.
At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.
I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.
I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be in.
What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.
From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.
I would audition for all the school plays, and finally, my last year, I got the role as Pinocchio - finally.
I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.
Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
I never even was in any of my high school plays. I mean, look at me. What role could they give me - the tooth fairy?
Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.
I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.
I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays like them - I wanted to be a painter.
I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.
I was an integral part of school plays. And when I was in the ninth standard, Om Shivpuri directed me in a play called 'The Miser.' It was a huge hit.
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
My two boys have each done a play. They've done school plays as well, but one of them did a local production of 'Waiting For Godot,' and he played the boy.
If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.
As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued.
There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.
I always wanted to be in Bollywood and the first step towards that was by participating in school plays. I would get awards for my acting and that motivated me to get into Bollywood.
I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I participated in the talent shows and the school plays - all of 'em.
I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
It was only in the second year of my Ph.D. that I started acting. I wasn't in school plays or anything; I was in bands, but I wasn't cool. There's no such thing as a cool physics person, is there?
I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
The school plays needed kids that were big and bold and weren't afraid to be on stage, and I fit that bill, so I was expected to do it. And then I went to college, and the exact same thing happened.
I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'
I briefly flirted with the idea of more stable career choices but they never excited me. I know it's a bit of a cliche but I remember doing school plays in primary school and feeling at home on the stage.
I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.
I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.
I did school plays, and then, at the age of 18, I applied to drama school in London, and I got in. I've been very lucky that no one so far has stopped me from being able to live my dream - the industry or my parents.
The chances of a child coming through as I did... the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and dance and sing. But I wouldn't put them to work.
Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.