Actors Quote by William Kempe

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as…

— Will Kemp

Although I have been doing plays since I was 8 years old, it was only when I started doing Shakespeare at age 19 at…

— Carrie Preston

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I started my career by doing plays in theatre.

— Hiten Tejwani

The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.

— Powers Boothe

I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a…

— Elizabeth Debicki

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

— Christian McKay

I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as…

— Xavier Samuel

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

— Tommy Wiseau

I grew up doing a lot of theatre, plays, dramas, musicals.

— Hale Appleman

Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare…

— Bill Nighy

Shakespeare was the main thing I did in my life from the age of 16 when I first played 'Hamlet' at school. I then…

— Mark Rylance