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Quotes About Royal Academy

I Googled every actor from my favorite film 'Annie.' Albert Finney was also from Manchester and he went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - so I auditioned there, too.
~ Wunmi Mosaku
As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school.
~ Rolf Harris
Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. Next! Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second. Whoa! Dan said. Amy gripped his arm. You found it? No, but look! This whole essay - 'To the Royal Academy.' He wrote a whole essay on farts! Dan grinned with delight. He's proposing a scientific study on different fart smells. You're right, Amy. This guy was a genius!
~ Rick Riordan
I had a teacher/director at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where I trained for a year, named Mary Duff, who taught me practically everything I know.
~ Rosemary Harris
I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
~ Ian McShane
I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard of. Luckily, I got in at the first attempt.
~ Richard McCabe
In his later years Faraday withdrew almost completely from social contacts, refusing even the presidency of the Royal Academy because of its too worldly disposition. The inhuman self-denials imposed by his creed made Faraday canalize his ferocious vitality into the pursuit of science, which he regarded as the only other permissible form of divine worship.
~ Arthur Koestler
There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.
~ David Warner
'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it.
~ Rachel Tucker
Let me acknowledge that I realize that, in honoring me, the Committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences is in fact saying a good word for all of those of my generation who have been laboring in the same vineyard.
~ Paul Samuelson