Best Drama School Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I wish it was easier for young people to go to drama school. It is too expensive and there are so few opportunities when they graduate.”

“You're just constantly outputting, and giving all you know so you don't have time to look inside of yourself and to really reflect. The four years at drama school really gave me that time and space.”

“I spent two years trying to get into drama school.”

“I didn't get into drama school after university. Looking back, I think I was really bad.”

“I had been working in England since 2005 when I left drama school.”

“I think the main thing that I would say from drama school, the problem that I have with it is it can make certain people feel - well, there's lots of schooling systems - it can make certain people feel wrong and certain people feel right.”

“I believe we are moving towards a utopia where pretty much any actor can play anything - soon we'll get to a point where the race and class and gender of the actor will not matter and that has changed since I left drama school in 1989.”

“I started acting because I was offered films, and I wanted to go to drama school and do the film because I'm the kind of girl that will do everything once.”

“I was taught at my drama school that it's not what you feel, it's what you make the audience feel.”

“My mum grew up in Oldham and was going to work at a cigarette factory till she decided to go to drama school, so there's part of me that wants to represent the Northern working-class background.”

“If drama school was like doing a BA, coming to the Court was like an MA or a PhD.”

“I had this idea when I left drama school that if I could do everything, I'd always be working.”

“I went to drama school.”

“I left drama school in the early '50s.”

“If you've been in drama school for eight years, you've got teachers in your head all the time.”

“I felt quite confident - when you come out of drama school you feel like you're on top of everything. I always tell people to go to drama school even if they've already done movies or whatever because the way you encounter content is so different.”

“When I left drama school I was prepped to be in shows and tour around England by van.”

“My parents are really, really talented and really good at what they do, so I've always learned from watching them. But their style is something that you can't really learn. They never went to drama school and neither did I.”

“Something they taught us at drama school, and it's taken me a long time to realise it's true through practice, is that you can't put judgments on a character you're playing, especially while you're doing it.”

“Drama school should set you up for failure in a really positive way, because your life as an actor is going to be rejection and it also should train you not be afraid of success either.”

“I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.”

“I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path.”

“Drama schools say if arts funding is cut, people can't afford to go, but I didn't go to drama school.”

“When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.”

“I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.”

“Right after I left drama school, I had a job.”

“It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.”

“I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.”

“You see kids leave drama school who are drop-dead gorgeous and they just go stratospheric instant'aneously.”

“The way that I work is I didn't go to drama school or anything like that so I have no choice but to be instinctual because I don't have a tool kit in the same way.”

“One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.”

“All of my friends at drama school were still sat on the floor doing voice exercises and I was doing scenes with David Tennant and Catherine Tate.”

“Those two years at drama school were nutty and weird. I didn't love it at all - I loved my class; I have so many great friends from that time - but I learned less. I just learned more of what I didn't like.”

“The South was influential in my life. It helped form who I am. I went to New York out of drama school, and I lived in California.”

“I'd had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.”

“Drama school taught me not to be precious.”

“Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.”

“I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.”

“I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.”

“Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.”

“If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.”

“I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House' was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.”

“My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.”

“Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.”

“I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.”

“The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.”

“The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.”

“There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.”

“In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'”

“Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.”

“I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.”

“I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.”

“I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.”

“About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'”

“I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I was strong and could lift things, I could move scenery about.”

“My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.”

“I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.”

“If I call myself an actor, it sounds like I'm trying to pass myself off as someone who went to drama school.”

“My experiences and training back at drama school were very enlightening. I always believe in improving, be it kathak or my acting skills, and would want to experiment more when it comes to work.”

“I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing them how valuable they were. Because they're ready to give it up and go into teaching or television.”

“I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.”

“I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.”

“My goal has always been, from the time I was at drama school, about longevity.”

“That's the great thing about university: you've got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.”

“I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.”

“At drama school, we were taught to write down your dreams and carry them around in your wallet with you, and they'll come true, but I didn't do that.”

“I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.”

“I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.”

“In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.”

“I was fresh out of drama school and had no idea what I was doing. They hustled me along and Bill Cosby tolerated my rookie behavior. It was great. Once you have 'The Cosby Show' on your resume, you can keep going.”

“I went to London for drama school but I hated it.”

“It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.”

“I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.”

“I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'”

“When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.”

“I went to drama school and it didn't prepare me for the ruthlessness of the industry at all, or the reality of it.”

“I didn't really enter into the real world until I was probably at drama school.”

“When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.”

“I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.”

“Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.”

“I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.”

“There are a lot of people at drama school that come from inherited wealth and it's an easier ride. I had to pay my way.”

“Nobody thought a white girl should learn to cook in South Africa. I went to drama school. My mother was an actress, so I thought I'd be an actress.”

“Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I was, the moon would shine on both of us. Months later, walking in London, I'd look at the moon and feel his love. Now I've shared the ritual with my own kids.”

“My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.”

“When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.”

“My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.”

“I went to drama school at New York University.”

“All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.”

“I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.”

“I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.”

“We studied so much Shakespeare in drama school and I'd like to go back to that. I'd really throw myself into something that would probably petrify me. Tennessee Williams. Something juicy.”

“Because when you're in drama school, you're playing multiple characters at once. You know, in the morning you're doing a Chekhov play, and then you're doing a Shakespeare workshop midday.”

“I started at drama school at 18.”

“Everyone else went to drama school, and that teaches you how to dissociate from your character. I don't know any technique! I'm just acting by chance - and by connection.”

“I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.”

“Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.”

“Drama school was a lifeline for me, it saved me. I found it very nurturing - I just clung on.”

“I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.”

“I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.”