James Callis Quotes

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 actually wanted to study acting in a way that not a lot of people want to do any more. And I wanted to go to college and pay lots of money to do it.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got high marks in it. I decided I didn't want to be removing worms' hearts for the rest of my life in Northern Ontario. I thought I would try acting. So, I went to England to study drama. I got Shakespeared out.

When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.

Until my father brought me into Reliance, I was pretty sure that I wanted to study in a U.S. university: hopefully, a little bit of time, either work at the World Bank or teach as a professor.

When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I'd finally found my place in life.

I was at Edinburgh doing history of art, Spanish and Arabic. I was originally supposed to do Italian instead of Arabic but when I went to see one of the lecturers they told me I should really do something more curveball. So I did.

I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all.

I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high on my agenda. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

While women in Britain are prevented from studying for medical degrees… other European nations have taken a very different position. We have already seen the Italian Universities were in fact never closed to women, and that at Bologna no less than three women held Professors’ chairs in the Medical faculty. We have several instances of degrees granted to women in the Middle Ages by the Universities of Bologna, Padua, Milan, Pavia and others…

EARLHAM COLLEGE Richmond, Indiana Is pleasantly situated one mile west of the city, in a beautiful and healthful locality, surrounded by ample lawns and play grounds. There are two regular course of study, of four years each--THE CLASSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COURSE. The latter includes a more extended course in Natural Science, applied Mathematics, History, English Literature, and German. Among the special aims of the College may be named: the securing of thorough and substantial intellectual training, under such instruction and influence as will help the student in the formation of a character based on Christian principles. Both sexes attend and are accorded equal privileges.

I made the decision to go on to college and major in drama and see where it would take me.

My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

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 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.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.

I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.