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“I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.”

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Author:Matt Letscher

“I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.”

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Author:Jason Mewes

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.”

“I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.”

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Author:Christian McKay

“From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.”

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Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.”

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Author:Queen Latifah

“I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the one who told me I could be an actor. I had never met an actor, I had never seen a real play, only high school plays. I didn't know actors were real, that it was a real job.”

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Author:Julianne Moore

“I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.”

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Author:Piers Morgan

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.”

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Author:Aaron Sorkin

“I used to like doing school plays.”

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Author:Jamie Waylett

“I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. But I wasn't doing well in any of the schools, so by ninth or tenth grade, I ended up going to a boarding school.”

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Author:Justin Theroux

“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.”

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Author:Ariel Pink

“I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.”

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Author:Daniela Bobadilla

“I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.”

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Author:Justin Theroux

“I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.”

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Author:Vinny Guadagnino

“... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.”

“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.”

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Author:Mira Sorvino

“I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

“An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went home and my boyfriend plunked out the notes for me, and I had to learn and prepare that song just so I could learn and know how that feels. I've never had that kind of detail in a rehearsal process. Jason Moore is absolutely unbelievable.”

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Author:Sarah Steele

“[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.”

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Author:Vanessa Kirby

“I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.”

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Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.”

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Author:Ben Affleck

“At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'”

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Author:Donny Osmond

“I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.”

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Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.”

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Author:Mayim Bialik

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”

“Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.”

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Author:Jack Black

“I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates.”

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Author:Shakira

“A good place to start initially would be school plays.”

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Author:Sara Gilbert

“I go to see my kids in school plays, ... I watched Lorna in a concert at the Westminster College of Music the other day and it was amazing. I felt very proud and surprised. I don't know why I was surprised, because I've known her for 17 years, but I've never seen her do anything like that in front of an audience. It's brave, it's uplifting.”

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Author:Sean Bean

“I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.”

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Author:Theo James

“I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.”

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Author:James Frecheville

“You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.”

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Author:Cynthia Lewis

“You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.”

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Author:Michelle Monaghan

“I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.”

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Author:Aaliyah

“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.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily lives – it’s unfaked folk art. The dancers, crashing wave upon wave into those falls, have a happy insane spirit that recalls a unique moment in American life – the time we did the school play or we were ready to drown at a swimming meet. The last time most of us were happy in that way.”

“I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.”

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Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.”

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Author:Edward Tufte

“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.”

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Author:Patrick Marber

“I was seventeen and the star of my high school play. I was supposed to kiss my leading man, but I couldn't stand the guy. I really didn't want to kiss him. All during rehearsals, I refused to kiss him. Then my drama teacher told me, "If you don't kiss him on opening night, you'll flunk drama class. So I kissed him, and that was my first kiss.”

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Author:Donna Mills

“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”

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Author:John Thaw

“It doesn't matter if it's a school play or a dumb TV show. It's your work. You should care about it so much that people get annoyed with you.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.”

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Author:Wole Soyinka

“I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.”

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Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“One man in his time plays many parts.”

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