Drama Training Quotes

My brother was older, very bright. He went to university. I wasn't academically bright - maybe at first, when I was little, but it was lost. I started doing a drama workshop and got really into it, then I did a BTec in performing arts and started to work.

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

I moved to London when I was 19 and went to a three-year drama-and-conservatory training. I lived there for almost ten years.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

I always wanted to go to a drama school.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

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.

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

I've always thought really good artists in general are overqualified. You're paid to stand there and do a line, but the guy has probably gone to drama school... but they have developed it to be just, like, one specific line.

I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I went to drama school.

Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

There are plenty of good drama schools and academies helping children and young people to learn to sing, dance, and act.

With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.

When I was a first year student at Julliard, I wasn't happy, not sure about this acting thing.

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 did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.

I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.