Act Quote by Holliday Grainger

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I moved across the country when I was 16, so I left my high school and finished school online in order to pursue my…

— Lili Reinhart

I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.

— David Thewlis

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating…

— James Franco

I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.

— Kristian Nairn

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

— Denis Leary

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

— Natasha Lyonne

I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.

— Dane DeHaan

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.

— James Caan

I haven't studied acting formally, so my 'university' was watching a lot cinema.

— Ishaan Khatter

I found myself at Cambridge, loved my course, and met these amazing people who got me heavily involved. I presumed I would have to…

— Nicola Walker

Because I came from a small town outside Glasgow, nobody from my school had ever gone into the acting profession. It was just something…

— Phyllis Logan