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The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.

— Douglas Hodge

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

— Natasha Lyonne

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

— Dan Byrd

I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.

— Chloe Sevigny

I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

— Jack Whitehall

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

— Ed Asner

I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.

— Dane DeHaan

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

— Dennis Farina

✗Opposing Perspectives

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

— Ewan McGregor

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

— Denis Leary