Neena Gupta Quotes

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.

Many people know that Shakespeare's dramatic 'canon' was established in 1623 by the publication of the so-called First Folio. That hefty volume contained thirty-six plays.

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.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

The excitement of being in a rehearsal room is good for me.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

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

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

I loved English at school and realised I would enjoy studying plays. I got into Royal Holloway. They had a little studio theatre where we put on plays, and that's what I realised I wanted to do. So from there, I went to the Old Vic theatre school to learn how to do it properly.

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

Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'Miller'. There's specific things about them that are written that are kind of the fingerprints of the first person who played that role, and so I like to think of it as a road map.

In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since.

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.

I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.