Rose Leslie Quotes

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

I want to discover more things about acting.

I like talking about acting. I'm comfortable talking about acting.

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

I went to acting school. I went to college for acting.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I went to drama school in Scotland.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

You're not going to learn about acting on TV and in film. You'll learn more in plays and in class.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

There's so much to learn as an actor.

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

I studied drama.

I went to LAMDA, which is a drama school in London, and we did a lot of combat there. I was quite good at all that.

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.