Brenda Blethyn Quotes

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

I'm always a people watcher. They always had us do that at the University of Connecticut where I went for my training. I got my B.F.A. in Acting there.

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

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in 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!

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.

I studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which was founded by Laurence Olivier and has alumni like Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day Lewis. It's a very erudite institution; its ethos, really, was always theatre-based.

I always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K.

I understudied Colm Feore quite a bit in '85 and '86 - 'Persephone' and 'The Boys from Syracuse,' too - and that was great, great training for me. He was and he is an amazing theatre actor.

I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.

The theatre training is second to none in Ireland and England. You meet people who haven't had theatre training - it is harder for people who worked in TV to go into theatre than the other way around.

I remember hearing that when Judi Dench was starting out at the Old Vic, she used to stand by the side of the stage watching the actors around her, and I can see why: That is where you really learn!

I did three years training for stage in drama school.

I learnt acting in Delhi from Barry John, who also taught Shah Rukh Khan.

I just feel lucky to have had my training at Juilliard. Even though it is a 'classical' training programme, they also prepare you for all mediums. They don't teach specific techniques or subscribe to a specific school of thought about acting.

I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.

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

I know I'll always want to come back to theatre, and I also thought if I can crack classical acting, everything else will probably seem easier.