21 Quotes by Lydia Leonard

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.

As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.

Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.

I'd always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was very little. I don't know why.

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.'