Acting Quote by Roger Allam

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

— Blythe Danner

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

— Kristian Nairn

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 started my acting career in 1974 through theatre and I was also a student of the National School of Drama.

— Rohini Hattangadi

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 because I enjoyed school plays.

— Mayim Bialik

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

— Gaspard Ulliel

I grew up in the theater, went to school for directing and playwriting.

— Jerrika Hinton

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 did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

— Lee Ryan

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

— Finty Williams

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