Top 30 School Play Quotes

When I was about ten years old, I was brought to London to watch a production of ‘The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.’ I think it was at Sadler’s Wells in maybe 2000. I watched it because my school was putting on a production of it, and it was the first school play that I was able to audition for a speaking part.

I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn’t even been in a school play.

I’ve been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn’t onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play.

I think I’m always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women – don’t forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.

When my kids were in the school play for the first time, I decided I had to make the costumes from scratch and bought material, wadding, dyed T-shirts, and purple tights so I could say I made the octopus costume myself.

I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.

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.

If I’d been in a school play, I’d probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

When you’re doing a medieval show like ‘Pillars,’ it starts off a bit like a school play. You’re all in funny costumes; you’ve had your coffee, and you say, ‘Good morning’. Then you go on set and, if you’ve got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?

I didn’t do school plays… I’ve never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I’d been in a school play, I’d probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad’s old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

At 17, I was finally in a school play.

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.

I didn’t win Class President in tenth grade. I was too chubby to win a role in the school play ‘Oklahoma!’ and I didn’t make it into a singing and dancing group in high school for the same reason – too fat.

I did ‘Spanglish’ and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, ‘Uh. What?’

The very first proper play I did was ‘Godspell,’ and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah’s ark.

I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called ‘Piffle It’s Only a Sniffle.’ I’d never had so much fun. It was a thrill.

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

I shouldn’t have acted. I didn’t exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren’t the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it’s when people say, ‘You know, your girls are great.’ That’s the real thing for me.

It wasn’t until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play – and got in, as it turned out.

The only memory I have of playing the saxophone was in a school play. We put on ‘Grease,’ which is still one of my favorite movies. I played Danny, and I slid out on my knees and played a really out-of-tune ‘Blue Moon.’

I remember doing my first school play. We were doing ‘Oliver Twist,’ and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first time I ever felt brave and confident and truly happy about something.

I found acting when I was 14, when I got cast in the chorus in a high school play, ‘The Boyfriend.’ In my high school, we did mainly musicals, so I just started doing nothing but musicals for years and loved it.

I find so often, you know, just on a very mundane level; you’ve got a meeting and your child’s acting in a school play. You can’t do both things. And it’s not simply that you can’t do both, but whatever you do, you’re going to be neglecting something that’s really important.

When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living – I don’t know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that – my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship – that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.

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.’

I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of ‘Wow! I broke the system!’