Imogen Poots Quotes

I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.

I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

I went to drama school in Scotland.

I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.

When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate.

The time and preparation before a play is something I really value, and it's something I learned in New York.

Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.

I loved drama class at school. I never took it seriously, as I was playing football. But maybe when I retire, I'll have a dabble.

I went to drama school.

I'm supposed to make plays.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.