Drama school Quotes · Page 2

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

— Agyness Deyn

At drama school, I was always playing the 11-year-old boys.

— Kit Harington

I did three years training for stage in drama school.

— Elliot Knight

I had no performance skills whatsoever, I never did drama at school.

— Chris McCausland

I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.

— Pierce Brosnan

I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

— John Ratzenberger

Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.

— Toby Stephens

I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.

— Laura Harrier

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

— Orlando Bloom

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

— Clive Owen

McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned…

— Dustin Clare

You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative…

— Jonathan Pryce

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

— Kate Winslet

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first…

— Gina Bellman

My first job after drama school was with Stanley Kubrick. It was only a few lines in 'A Clockwork Orange', but I…

— Carol Drinkwater

I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde…

— Kaya Scodelario

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

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting.…

— James Earl Jones

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 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

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

— Ben Schnetzer

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

— Carmen Ejogo

My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school.…

— Helen Mirren

I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with…

— Ben Kingsley

I find it hard to act unprofessionally because I can't do drama at school, it's hard for me to do drama out…

— Georgie Henley

I come from a little bit of a theatrical background. I started that way. I don't have a tremendous body of work…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I think since I was in drama school, I wanted to direct in the theatre. When you are an actor, you just…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

— Richard O'Brien

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

— Finty Williams

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

— Alfred Molina

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

— Peter Capaldi

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

— Marc Warren

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

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

— Genevieve O'Reilly

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

— Michelle Dockery

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

— Celia Imrie

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

— Jason Clarke