Before Quote by Rory Bremner

I had always wanted to do comedy, but didn't know where to start - all I knew was that Edinburgh was where it happened.

— Lolly Adefope

But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.

— Nish Kumar

I did a theatrical performance about puns. Really it was just a play on words.

— Nikhil Saluja

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

— Richard Armitage

I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year…

— Eric Idle

After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day.

— Nick Mohammed

You gig and gig and wonder what your first Edinburgh show will be like, if people will like it, and when they do, it…

— Rachel Parris

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of…

— James Callis

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

— John Mahoney

My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.

— Eric Idle

“I missed the currency of ideas. In London we had been part of a wide circle of solicitors’ families, and social occasions had been…

— Tracy Chevalier