Acting Quote by Joe Dempsie

I think I got into acting because I kind of had not much else to do! I guess I was kind of looking for…

— Jeremy Irvine

I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know…

— Lindsay Duncan

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big…

— John Boyega

My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on Angela's Ashes but as a child I had written to so many other productions…

— Kerry Condon

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting…

— Ben Affleck

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

— Naomie Harris

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

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

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham…

— Olivia Cooke