Orlando Bloom Quotes

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

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 never went to drama school.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

I didn't start acting until after undergrad!

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

I was lucky enough to get into drama school in London back in 2005, and I was there for three years, and in those three years, we did a lot of theater. A lot of classical training.

As an actor, you create your own ideas.

We studied so much Shakespeare in drama school and I'd like to go back to that. I'd really throw myself into something that would probably petrify me. Tennessee Williams. Something juicy.

I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.

Because when you're in drama school, you're playing multiple characters at once. You know, in the morning you're doing a Chekhov play, and then you're doing a Shakespeare workshop midday.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

All of my friends at drama school were still sat on the floor doing voice exercises and I was doing scenes with David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.