James Norton Quotes

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.

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

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

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

It was always my goal to be a working actor.

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

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, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

People really don't understand what actors do.

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.