Top 1200 Acting School Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn’t really my thing.

When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple of acting jobs. There were definitely some girls that were either jealous or thought I was a snob. I was just trying to be a teenage girl and go to high school and have fun like everybody else!

I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.

I didn't learn acting. I was still in school/college, shooting and then going back to studies.

I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.

I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high on my agenda. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

I used to do karate, but then as acting and school got a little more hectic, I stopped.

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

I did some acting in high school and then a little more in college, and it just was the thing that I felt that I wanted to do more than anything else. And then I was fortunate enough to audition for and get into Yale Drama School right after college, and I spent three years there.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

Tanushree taught me how to do make-up when I didn't even know how to hold a brush, She encouraged me to go to acting school when I was not confident about my personality and acting. She even got my pictures done by the best photographers in town. She motivated me to do my best.

Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, to begin with, in the 1980s, it was all character acting. And then when, by fluke, through 'Four Weddings', I got into doing lead parts, it's a completely different thing.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

I started my acting career in 1974 through theatre and I was also a student of the National School of Drama.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.

Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn't prepared myself to be an actor.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.

My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I’d go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we’d all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn’t jaded.

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potential career.

I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.

I sang when I was in primary school, and I did singing at Sylvia Young: no acting at all.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

In high school, I got picked on. It's funny that I got tormented for what I'm doing now - the acting thing. People would see me in a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day at school. Kids would say, 'Hi, TV Boy.' They heckled. I never got beat up.

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded.

I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

I was a shy kid and acting did bring me out of my shell during high school.

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

I didn't have any terrible survival jobs. The main job I had before I was able to transition over to acting full-time was working at an after-school program at a middle school teaching improv and standup. So even when I had a regular job, I was still lucky enough to be doing the stuff I loved in some way.

Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I realized I was more interested in all the aspects of filmmaking as opposed to all the aspects of theater, which is what you would have to do if you studied acting at a liberal arts school. And so I thought, "Oh, I'll meet directors and filmmakers, and I'm an actress, so I'll become friends with them and hopefully be in their movies." And then It worked!

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

Some people have this really clear memory of making that decision, and I don't. My earliest memories of being involved with drama or acting were in elementary school. My sister and I got dropped off at an after-school improvisation class, a time-killer for kids while parents were doing the groceries. I'm 6 years old, and I remember running amok and playing these games.