Ben Schnetzer Quotes

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.

I would tell anyone who wanted to be an actor not to bother with drama school.

The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.

My mom suggested studying acting in college, but I was a bit scared to choose that path because I couldn't wrap my head around the drama school audition process.

I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

I'm a Jack of all trades character actor, really.

Right after I left drama school, I had a job.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.

When I was a young woman, before I moved to New York, working in small, non-Equity theatres in the Midwest, I did a lot of musicals in my early to mid-20s.

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

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician.

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.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.