Actors Quote by Simon Callow

I pretty much immediately ran away from university to be an actor.

— Rege-Jean Page

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

— James Nesbitt

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

— James D'arcy

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

— Aidan Turner

I went to university for a year, and I'm not one for schooling and have no enjoyment sitting in a classroom all day and…

— Travis Fimmel

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

— David Thewlis

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

— Maxine Peake

I studied in Glasgow and, when I was young, I spent four years solely in theatre.

— Denis Lawson

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor…

— Jim Sturgess

I moved across the country to become an actor, not an academic type.

— Noah Centineo

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

— Josh Dallas

I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So…

— Holliday Grainger