Drama school Quotes · Page 7

If you've been in drama school for eight years, you've got teachers in your head all the time.

— Jonathan Majors

I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses,…

— Sendhil Ramamurthy

First and foremost, at drama school it gets drilled into you that you say yes to anything. If they say, can you…

— Ncuti Gatwa

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

— Robert Klein

In terms of drama school, what that will give you that you won't necessarily learn on a film set is the technical…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I got a job right out of drama school as assistant stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic. I've been lucky enough…

— Prunella Scales

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I…

— Zawe Ashton

I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that;…

— Taron Egerton

My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years. I applied while…

— Phoebe Fox

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and…

— Katie Leung

I was interested in drama, but it never seemed like a real profession somehow. It was so outside my experience, and I…

— Kelly Macdonald

I was very fortunate to have gone to drama school in London for three years, and that was classical training in the…

— Rose Leslie

I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because…

— Naomie Harris

You have to be able to hold up a mirror to your personality at drama school and recognise the flaws. That's hard…

— Phoebe Fox

You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you…

— Taron Egerton

I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my…

— James McAvoy

I tried twice to get into drama school and didn't, so I worked my way up through the fringe.

— Noma Dumezweni

I started acting because I was offered films, and I wanted to go to drama school and do the film because I'm…

— Lisa Haydon

I was taught at my drama school that it's not what you feel, it's what you make the audience feel.

— June Brown

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make…

— Dawn French

Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.

— Sophie Cookson

I went to LAMDA, which is a drama school in London, and we did a lot of combat there. I was quite…

— Emily Beecham

The best job was when I was at drama school and I cleaned flats in the Barbican. I loved it. They were…

— Sarah Parish

I didn't act professionally before going to drama school. I don't know if I had the confidence. I didn't think I'd get…

— Francois Arnaud

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and…

— Orlando Bloom

When I was in rehearsal in drama school, I would speak things in meter and then never do it again.

— Adrian Lester

I did a lot of stock before I even went to drama school. I sort of went in the back door of…

— Rosemary Harris

All of my friends at drama school were still sat on the floor doing voice exercises and I was doing scenes with…

— Tom Bateman

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

— Brenda Blethyn

In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different…

— Lance Reddick

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four…

— Lake Bell

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill…

— Rupert Friend

I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

— Thomas Howes

I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of…

— Ben Schnetzer

I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.

— Dominique McElligott

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

— Brian Blessed

Nobody thought a white girl should learn to cook in South Africa. I went to drama school. My mother was an actress,…

— Prue Leith

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on…

— Delta Burke

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly…

— Nico Mirallegro