Rupert Graves Quotes

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.

Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

I didn't go to acting school.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.

I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.

When I was a kid, I was really curious about acting. And I was interested in movement and dance. I wasn't good at either of those things - I didn't work at those things.

Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

Acting was always my passion, even before music, so I knew I was always heading down that path.

I am an entertainer.

I learned acting while doing my shows. I never joined any course or anything. I just jumped into acting. I learn from experience.

I used to do cabaret as a kid and always wanted to pick it up again.

I wanted to be Bob Hope or Red Skelton from the time I was 8 years old.

Being in an acting class, you always feel like, you know, you're insecure, a lot of ways, when the teacher is commenting on your performance.

I never went to drama school, but I was really lucky in that both my junior school and secondary school had brilliant drama departments.

I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.

I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, 'I can't do this; this is ridiculous.'

If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment.

I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.

No one was like, 'Here's how you swing.' It was just like, 'Let's go hit and figure it out along the way.' I always kind of figured it out.

I've studied Charlie Chaplin for years. I've studied Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, all of them. I don't play around. This is not a game.