Edinburgh Quote by Tom Hiddleston

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day…

— Lesley Manville

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home…

— Kandyse McClure

I began to tell people that I wanted to be an entertainer. Between the ages of five and 11 there was an intense amount…

— Denis Lawson

My parents took me to shows starting when I was a very little kid. I remember seeing Henry IV at the Shakespeare Theatre in…

— Nick Blaemire

I was a shy kid so my parents sent me to Anna Scher's theatre school. That's how I got my first proper role aged…

— Martin Kemp

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

— Taron Egerton

I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the…

— Lesley Nicol

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of…

— Matisyahu

I was in theater school playing Lady Macbeth and doing these great dramatic parts, and then I got out into the real world and…

— Marielle Heller

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being…

— Kate Brown

A theater in Berlin asked me if I wanted to do a theater production. Right away I said I wanted to do 'Peaches Christ…

— Peaches

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

— Samuel Larsen