Victoria Hamilton Quotes

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.

I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.