Victoria Hamilton Quotes

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from doing musicals... and of course the first thing that happened when I got out is I got offered a musical. And then when I got to the Royal Shakespeare Company, which was my next job, I ended up doing a bloody musical!

All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

I did school plays, and then, at the age of 18, I applied to drama school in London, and I got in. I've been very lucky that no one so far has stopped me from being able to live my dream - the industry or my parents.

Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.

After a West End run, in which I was promoted to Laertes, I joined the RSC in 1972. I had fulfilled my dream.

I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

When I changed my degree to acting, I almost gave my parents heart attacks.

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

I'd like to have a solid, classy career with a good CV of work. I want to be known for acting, not my personal life. Women like Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet - they're intelligent and sophisticated. I want to be given those opportunities.

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

Here in England, my becoming an actor was considered unimaginative.

TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.

I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times.

I got my Equity card and agent before I ever went to drama school.

Many people say that theatre has no money, but it has been the stepping stone for the best film actors of our times like Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, etc.

I had the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.

I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn't even know what an agent was.

I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

I didn't start auditioning until my 10th birthday when I auditioned for 'Matilda' The Musical in London! It was actually the first time I realized that it was a career I could pursue.

I left drama school in the early '50s.

I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. But then a lady at the youth theatre asked me if I'd ever thought of going to drama school.