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Because I came from a small town outside Glasgow, nobody from my school had ever gone into the acting profession. It was just something you didn't do. You joined the bank or became a teacher or whatever you did.

— Phyllis Logan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.

— Lindsay Duncan

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

— Natasha Lyonne

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

— Denis Leary

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

— Ving Rhames

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 went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

— Freema Agyeman

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

— James Coburn

My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools.

— Kerry Condon

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

— Troy Garity

✗Opposing Perspectives

I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had.

— Joe Dempsie