Top 1200 Acting School Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

It was so much fun to work with the cast on 'School of Rock'. I was a little nervous because it was my first acting gig, but it was such a great experience.

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

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

We had an ancient Russian acting coach at my drama school who said the worst offense you could commit was to let your subtext show. That is the point of acting, is to be saying one thing and not be allowed by society or your predicament to show what you're really feeling. In a way, I think that's why the therapy generation has killed script writing, because all you ever get is people going, "Hi, I'm feeling really angry right now."

When it came to dancing and acting at school, my sister was the talented one. To get even close to her, I had to work incredibly hard.

I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living.

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work.

Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.

I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we [with Alix MacKenzie] didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my painting direction very strongly just by association.

I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident!

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.'

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.

I never did any acting in school. There was only one play in which I participated and it had no dialogues for me.

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

At 15, I refereed my first match, and I was training at my dad's school even prior to that, so the only thing that I was concerned about - I guess the only thing that made me reluctant and was the reason I was in L.A. and the reason I went to acting school - was I thought maybe I wasn't big enough - physically big enough - to compete with WWE.

My parents were actors. And so I was born in New York City, and when I was 7, they quit acting and went back to medical school at the University Of Chicago.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

I'd done acting at a local drama school on Saturdays. I just enjoyed it. It never entered my mind I could possibly do it for a career.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high school I went to was a private school. It was prep school. It was a boarding school. So we didn't have a shop class. We didn't have Saturday detention. We went to school on Saturday. We did have Sunday study, which you very rarely get, because then you have 13 straight days of school. Who wants that?

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

Although we're acting, and our minds know that we're acting, our bodies don't quite know that we're acting. So even when you're watching someone acting like they're dying, your body has like a true real response to it.

The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.

I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

I did a show when I was two, but I didn't start acting as a child. I wanted to go to school every day and be with my friends and really have that experience.

Theater was such a different school of acting. But it really is a foundation of everything. It's where it all started! And I feel like I learned so much.

Believe me, I've never trained in acting. All the fluidity, the confidence you may see on screen comes from my stage performances in school and college.

I left acting school really hoping that I could be on a television show of some sort, working in movies in Hollywood.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it wasn't an arty school.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

I felt intimidated the entire time I was in school by my teachers and classmates. But I just knew acting was something I wanted to do.

The sense of acting being teamwork was a mentality that I took from school: I studied with wonderful people, and I wanted them to be proud of me.

My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sisters.

Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.