Ashamed Quote by Jennifer Garner

When I first started acting, I never thought I'd be on TV or film. I always wanted to be on stage.

— Michael Socha

I think I always knew I was going to somehow be on a stage. I was quite an extrovert, as a child. And I…

— Eve Hewson

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I…

— Fred Melamed

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13.…

— Kate Hudson

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

— Shania Twain

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

— Vanessa Kirby

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

— Hannah Simone

I guess I did a couple of things when I was a kid, but they weren't really acting - I think I walked down…

— A Fine Frenzy

I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.

— Christine and the Queens

I always wanted to be an actress. My first audition, while I was 9, was playing Johnny Depps daughter. I think everyone in my…

— Emma Roberts

I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

— Patti Smith

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney…

— Fred Melamed