Drama School Quotes

Right after I left drama school, I had a job.

I'd done acting at a local drama school on Saturdays. I just enjoyed it. It never entered my mind I could possibly do it for a career.

I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.

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.

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

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

My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, 'There's no way I'm taking math and history.' And right next to it was the line for the drama department.

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I moved to London when I was 19 and went to a three-year drama-and-conservatory training. I lived there for almost ten years.

I knew I wanted to go to college and I wanted to study it acting, so I just looked for the best school that I could get into. Luckily, I had very supportive parents. I went to a conservatory that is basically drama school. You take one English class and one history class for four years but you don't take any other science or anything like that. It's strictly, from 7am until night, all acting. It's a lot. Some people find it too much, but for me I was preparing for a career and I never really looked back.

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.

I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

I got introduced to yoga in drama school. It's now a mainstay in my life, ever since I got instructor certification at a teacher-training intensive. I even occasionally guide an intimate class of friends and family, but mostly the training was to serve and deepen my own practice.

Film and television as a medium has only very recently begun to be taught at the great drama schools in the UK. When I was at drama school in the UK, I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, "We've taught you Anton Chekhov and William Shakespeare, you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial."