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I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.
I never went to drama school. It's a brilliant thing for the right type of person, but I threw myself in the deep end.
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.
Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
I actually came out of drama school and went into two years of working in film and television, which was a happy accident.
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.
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
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'd just come out of drama school, didn't get anything, had to move back in with my parents and do a night-time cleaning job.
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.
I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!
In drama school, I learned I wasn't as good as I thought I was. But I loved stage combat, and I knew that would pay the bills.
I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.
I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
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 never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.
Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.
I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.
I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.
I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.
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.
I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.
I'd done acting at a local drama school on Saturdays. I just enjoyed it. It never entered my mind I could possibly do it for a career.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well.
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 never went to drama school, but I was really lucky in that both my junior school and secondary school had brilliant drama departments.
I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; 'Game Of Thrones' has definitely brought me that.
I failed my exams and my driving test. I failed to get into the Foreign Office and drama school. The big F was dominant in my early years.
The most pressure I've ever felt to be brilliant was in drama school - those were the toughest auditions. I really wanted to prove myself.
I got a job right out of drama school as assistant stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic. I've been lucky enough to stay in work ever since.
I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. But then a lady at the youth theatre asked me if I'd ever thought of going to drama school.
At drama school I learned the Stanislavski technique, which uses sentimental memories and bits of your past to put real emotion into the scene.
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.
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.
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.
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
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.
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 didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school.
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.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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 did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.
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.'
The most common experience in my life is rejection. I've done over 300 auditions. No amount of drama school training can prepare you for that, in theory.
I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.