Jessica Raine Quotes

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I see a ton of theatre whenever I'm not working to stay inspired. I love feeling like I'm a part of the theatre community and following the work of actors and writers I admire. I'm a big reader, too.

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

I'd trained at the University of Washington and had a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.

I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.

I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

I left drama school in the early '50s.

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

Both my parents have done considerable work in theatre and I have grown up with that culture, but I still felt that I needed formal training.

I'm not sure I approve of theatre as a university course. I think theatre's something you do. I mean, literature is a subject; theatre is practical.

I don't see enough theatre.

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

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

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician.

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.

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.

I love theater and I really wanted to do more theater.

I trained at the Oxford School of Drama.

From musicals to plays, I was part of all things theatrical all through my school life in Chandigarh, and this helped me develop a strong love for theatre and acting. Even during college, I was active in the theatre scene and even founded two theatre groups.

I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.