I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
- Emeril LagasseI attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.
- Plácido DomingoIn high school I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play and I got the lead. And she helped me to get into a conservatory, with a scholarship as a singer, and then I was accepted into the acting conservatory. This agent saw me, the summer before I went to conservatory, and while I was in school, I started working right away. And it worked out. - On getting into acting.
- Forest WhitakerI went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
- Cecilia BartoliSo I went to SUNY. at Purchase, studied acting at the conservatory. Did some plays, later TV. Nothing unusual.
- Stanley Tucci