Billy Magnussen Quotes

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.

We studied so much Shakespeare in drama school and I'd like to go back to that. I'd really throw myself into something that would probably petrify me. Tennessee Williams. Something juicy.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

I went to drama school in Scotland.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

I studied dramatics under him [General Douglas MacArthur] for twelve years.

I went to the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

I like the notion of theater as recreational.

I trained at the Oxford School of Drama.

I did three years training for stage in drama school.

I'm not a Shakespearean actor really, or a Shakespearean director.

I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

I'm a dramatist.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.