Rada Quotes

I don`t think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central (School of Speech and Drama) and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it`s like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

On The Waterfront came out and there were 150 guys (at RADA) all doing Brando impressions.

(During an interview on US television the interviewer asked who had inspired him) It was during my time at RADA, there was a man who inspired us all. Claude Rains. I don`t know what happened to him, I think he failed and went to America.

Well, my parents were working people. You just worked. I`ve always wanted a long career, not an instant one. I left Rada, I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and came to the National Theatre. What`s better than that? I don`t know what`s better than that. `Oh, but surely you wanted to be a big film star when you were 21?` No, because I would`ve been rubbish. Because I spent a lot of time in rep being OK, being very bad, and then being quite good. And I could practice my craft. You know, being exposed that early, to be brilliant in your first job, where do you go from there? It`s given me time, which is a luxury.