Quotes about Acting School

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school. Votes: 1

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself. Votes: 1

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared. Votes: 1

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students. Votes: 1

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler. Votes: 1

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school. Votes: 1

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.' Votes: 1

I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college. Votes: 1

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is. Votes: 1

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting. Votes: 1

Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else. Votes: 1

I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky. Votes: 1

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience. Votes: 1

My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera. Votes: 1

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?' Votes: 1

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. Votes: 1

African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka. Votes: 1

To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set. Votes: 1

To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder. Votes: 1

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution. Votes: 1

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes. Votes: 1

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see. Votes: 1

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays. Votes: 0

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult. Votes: 0

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes. Votes: 0

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school. Votes: 0

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares. Votes: 0

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school. Votes: 0

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school. Votes: 0

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. Votes: 0

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession. Votes: 0

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird. Votes: 0

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel. Votes: 0

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. Votes: 0

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school. Votes: 0

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. Votes: 0

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting. Votes: 0

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting. Votes: 0

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it. Votes: 0

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far. Votes: 0

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job. Votes: 0

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school. Votes: 0

I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can. Votes: 0

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!" Votes: 0

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred. Votes: 0

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside. Votes: 0

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch. Votes: 0

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. Votes: 0

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school. Votes: 0

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school. Votes: 0

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young. Votes: 0

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting. Votes: 0

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting. Votes: 0

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler Votes: 0

Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school. Votes: 0

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. Votes: 0

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays. Votes: 0

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films. Votes: 0

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it. Votes: 0

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. Votes: 0

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting. Votes: 0

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. Votes: 0

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.' Votes: 0

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again. Votes: 0

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. Votes: 0

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things. Votes: 0

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays. Votes: 0

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture. Votes: 0

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess. Votes: 0

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school. Votes: 0

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting. Votes: 0

I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life. Votes: 0

I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest. Votes: 0

I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! Votes: 0

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy. Votes: 0

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing. Votes: 0

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London. Votes: 0

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer. Votes: 0

I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow. Votes: 0

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons. Votes: 0

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. Votes: 0

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting. Votes: 0

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. Votes: 0

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.' Votes: 0

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route. Votes: 0

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore. Votes: 0

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby]. Votes: 0

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school. Votes: 0

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday. Votes: 0

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school. Votes: 0

You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito! Votes: 0

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it. Votes: 0

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school. Votes: 0

I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting. Votes: 0

When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do? Votes: 0

You don't learn acting, you nourish it. I don't regret not going to drama school because I was very afraid of all the lessons. I'm allergic to technicality. Votes: 0

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular. Votes: 0

After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive! Votes: 0

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs. Votes: 0

My parents' biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn't fathom me acting for the rest of my life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained. Votes: 0

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school. Votes: 0

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated. Votes: 0

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises. Votes: 0

I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere. Votes: 0

I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0