“The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.” PlayMomentsLiteratureLeftDramaEnglandBillsPresent MomentLinks Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.” YearsLongTwoSchoolThreeHoursFourWeekHugeDramaEnglandCoachesBackgroundsShootingFour YearsAccentsThree TimesSessionNuanceDialectThailandSkypeDialect Coach Author:Lake Bell
“I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.” YearsSchoolFourHugeDramaEnglandBackgroundsFour YearsAccentsNuanceSkypeDialect Coach Author:Lake Bell
“There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.” IfsThinkingWayStillsDifferentMightWantedSchoolActorsTypeDramaLuckyTrainingEnglandTheaterHype Author:Eleanor Tomlinson
“My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.” MenDramaEnglandMalesSexualityExplorationShockingControversial Author:Peter Webber
“There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.” SchoolYoungActorsWishGoneDramaEnglandComing OutYoung Actors Author:Ed Speleers
“I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.” SaidSchoolAmericaGirlRoomsTeachLaughingTaughtGoes OnDramaEmptyEnglandScreensBurningCandleEmpty RoomsCandles Burning Author:Quentin Crisp
“I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.” YearsTwoWarSchoolStarsCollegeDramaSpeechEnglandLondonTwo Years Author:Carrie Fisher
“I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.” ShouldMindCountryWholeStoriesBodyHandsEarthLevelsDramaDrawsEnglandPaintConnectedDrawingTalesContactFairyCyclesLegendsSchemesLinkedScopeFullnessMajesticSplendourFairy Stories Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.” MeanAmericaOrderNiceDramaEnglandBritishQueensEmpiresBritish Empire Author:Joan Collins
“What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.” PeopleWantTryingDifferentHardSchoolAmericaYoungStudyHard WorkDramaTrainingEuropeEnglandTechniqueAccents Author:Joan Collins