Emilia Clarke Quotes

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

You know, I love acting.

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.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to dance at the age of seven.

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

I learned how to act working in TV.

I'm an actor before I'm anything else.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I was being groomed to be the theatrical caricaturist. And I know if I got that job, I'd never quit. So I quit. I knew I wanted to go into the theater... I wanted to act.

I am lucky that I get to play a singer and an actress.

I did not choose acting as a career.

Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.