Drama school Quotes · Page 3

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

— Gemma Arterton

I think so often you can come out of drama school and get thrown in the deep end.

— Michelle Dockery

My goal has always been, from the time I was at drama school, about longevity.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.

— Jason Clarke

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

— Celia Imrie

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

— Albert Maltz

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

— Mandy Patinkin

One of the first jobs I did out of drama school was a panto at the Magnum.

— Douglas Henshall

I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.

— Emilia Clarke

It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now…

— Lupita Nyong'o

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked,…

— Julia Ormond

You don't learn acting, you nourish it. I don't regret not going to drama school because I was very afraid of all…

— Romain Duris

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End,…

— Tom Holland

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

— Casey Wilson

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

— Elaine Paige

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I…

— Ed Speleers

When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really…

— Ben Schnetzer

I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and…

— Taron Egerton

There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and…

— Carmen Ejogo

At drama school, I was told, 'Lay off the chips, or you'll never play Juliet.' Sometimes, in the stock room of the…

— Maxine Peake

I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to…

— Andre Holland

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood…

— David Oyelowo

I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more…

— Anne-Marie Duff

Drama school should set you up for failure in a really positive way, because your life as an actor is going to…

— Sian Clifford

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

— Peter Capaldi

Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.

— Graham Norton

Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.

— Alfred Molina

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

— Marc Warren

Ironically at drama school I was told I didn't have a voice conducive for radio.

— Finty Williams

As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.

— Tuppence Middleton

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

— Alan Cumming

I never wanted to go to drama school. I thought that was too many eggs in one basket.

— Juno Temple

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

— David Tennant

I had been working in England since 2005 when I left drama school.

— Tom Payne

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

— Jeremy Irons

I didn't really enter into the real world until I was probably at drama school.

— Freddie Fox

I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

— Nathalie Emmanuel

When I left drama school I was prepped to be in shows and tour around England by van.

— Josh O'Connor

Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

— Jason Statham

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

— Natalie Dormer