Academy Quote by Stephanie Beacham

I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

— Christine McVie

I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard of. Luckily,…

— Richard McCabe

Part of the training you get in theater is that you're never going to give up.

— Bill Duke

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

— Michael Ritchie

In college I took an acting class as a joke. It sounded like something fun and easy at the time. I had originally wanted…

— Michael Graziadei

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of…

— Russell Crowe

I used to do some ushering work at the theatre, which was pretty humbling; it made me realise how difficult the profession I'd chosen…

— Anna Madeley

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical…

— Richard Armitage

I had a teacher/director at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where I trained for a year, named Mary Duff, who taught me practically…

— Rosemary Harris

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

— Jeremy Irons

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

— Asrani

I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in…

— Joe Wright