James Callis Quotes

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. But I wasn't doing well in any of the schools, so by ninth or tenth grade, I ended up going to a boarding school.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.

I wanted to go to theater school.

I studied performing arts at college and wanted to act.

My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as long as I can remember, I've always played make-believe ... It's something that I've always done, that I've always been comfortable doing.

I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them. In high school I had some friends in the drama department, but they were just doing plays, and I was like, "Eh, I don't really think that that's me." So I just played sports. Then, a bunch of years later, I'm acting.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater