Theatre Studies Quotes

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.

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

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

I finished my university, was part of NSD, and did full length plays on stages.

I'd hardly seen any movies when I was 19 and left drama school.

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.

I made the decision to go on to college and major in drama and see where it would take me.

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

In 1986 I went to study at the Delhi University and that's where I took up theatre seriously.

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

I was very fortunate to have gone to drama school in London for three years, and that was classical training in the sense that a lot of it was dominated by stage work, so I would love to go back to stage.

I had studied at the NYU School of the Arts under Lloyd Richards, who also worked with the Negro Ensemble Company.

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.

I changed my major to English literature, which was on the advice of my father. I finally said, "You know, Dad, to heck with it: I'm just going to be an actor. But I'm going to go to school." And he said, "Well, if you're going to go to school, then major in English literature. Those are the tools you are going to be working with as a man who's going to be acting in English, one would assume."

I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.