A Quote by H. Jon Benjamin

I wasn't classically trained as an actor; I wasn't pursuing standup comedy. I really came into it through the back door. And there was a benefit to that, I think, because I wasn't pressing; I wasn't pushing.

H. Jon Benjamin

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H. Jon Benjamin
American - Actor
Born: May 23, 1966

I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.

Michael Richards

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

Wesley Snipes

I think, even when I was little, there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist. My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

Condola Rashad

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

Condola Rashad

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

Ana Gasteyer

Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That's the beauty of comedy: it's close to a pure meritocracy.

Ted Alexandro

I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.

Bob Newhart

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

Carly Craig

There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the pretentious ones, who believe that acting is harder than standup comedy. I definitely don't think it is. I also think making a comedy is substantially harder than making a drama.

Jim Jefferies

My mum didn't want me to really pursue music in the beginning, but I'm a classically trained guitarist because of her.

Jax Jones

I don't really think of myself so much as a writer as a stylist, someone who came into writing from the back door and has found it through a certain very specific and personal means.

Lindsey Buckingham

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

Brad Dourif

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

Sofia Carson

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

Jermaine Fowler

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

Clare Bowen

I never decided I wanted to be an actor. I just started doing standup because I love standup. Everything else has sort of been these tiny steps leading to this.

Kumail Nanjiani

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