A Quote by Naseeruddin Shah

Acting is learnt, not taught.

Naseeruddin Shah

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Naseeruddin Shah
Indian - Actor
Born: July 20, 1949

I learnt acting in Delhi from Barry John, who also taught Shah Rukh Khan.

Harshvardhan Rane

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

Sarah Snook

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

Shailene Woodley

Yes, my acting was not stylised. I always underplayed, maybe because I never learnt acting.

Waheeda Rehman

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

Saba Qamar

My father spoke with something very similar to a 1920s newscaster type of English, and I learnt that accent of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe. So I learnt that, and I learnt how to copy it, and I learnt how to shift in and out of it, but also talk like my mother's relatives in the village.

Rege-Jean Page

I have never been to an acting school, and on the sets of 'Karwaan,' Irrfan was my acting school. By observing him, I learnt to improvise in the scenes along with focusing on the smallest of the details.

Mithila Palkar

Shahrukh taught me an important lesson - acting cannot be taught; it has to be experienced.

Vatsal Sheth

We learnt a lot from doing Panto, actually back when we were still doing 'SMTV: Live.' We learnt how far we could push things and the show was all the better for that. I think that taught us you really have to know your audience because you could see how they would react to things.

Ant McPartlin

I learnt to keep my acting subtle.

Raashi Khanna

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

Deborah Ann Woll

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet... I want my children to be the same... I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.