Tuppence Middleton Quotes

At 14, I was modeling, which helped me come out of my shell, but I always dreamed of theater school.

When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.

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

I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college.

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

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 the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.

In the next five years, I'd absolutely love to do theater. I went to drama school and that's where the focus lies. I'd definitely like to do that before the fear sets in.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

Initially, it was my dream to get into RADA. Then I got in. So it became my dream to show them I wasn't half bad at acting.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

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.

Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school.

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.

I went to drama school at New York University.