Bill Nunn Quotes

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 started acting professionally at age 19.

I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.

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

When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K.

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

I went to Long Beach State, started out as an actor.

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.

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor.

I went to Northampton College of Further Education. I left there - when I was 16, I left Kingsthorpe Upper - and I went and did a diploma in performing arts, so it was my start in the training process to becoming an actor.

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.

I became an actor when I was 22.

I was 42 when I started to make my living as an actor.

When I left drama school I was prepped to be in shows and tour around England by van.

After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.

I never planned to become an actor.

My work in the theater began to shift more towards young audience type of work and education programs for children, arts education programs.

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.

Los Angeles is where I became an actor.

I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this was going to have to be my career, and I was really lucky to get big breaks early on.

I never thought I would become an actress.

When I started my career as an actor, I had no guidance from anyone.