Actor Quote by James Nesbitt

I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.

— Jonathan Anderson

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from…

— James Nesbitt

I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this was going…

— Michael Ball

I started in theatre; the first bit of drama I did was amateur dramatics, up until I was 19. Then the TV and film…

— Michael Socha

I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.

— Maxine Peake

Growing up as a kid, I played for Wallsend Boys Club, a famous boys club. I had such a good childhood and upbringing there.

— Michael Carrick

I always loved drama at school. We had a great drama teacher at my secondary school, and she made drama feel cool. She inspired…

— Joe Cole

I joined an amateur drama group as a teenager, fell in love with theatre, and it totally changed my life.

— David Jason

I spent most of my teenage years in the National Theatre.

— Finty Williams

Just growing up on 'Friday Night Lights,' other dramas, that kind of shaped my childhood. The fact that I can have one talking about…

— Spencer Paysinger

My sights have always been on acting, on the creative process, never the lifestyle. Growing up in Northern Ireland when I did, everything was…

— Colin Morgan

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.

— Lucy Punch