Quotes About Performance

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.

That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

The main thing is the ability to control your instrument, which, in the actor, is yourself. Look the way you want the character to look. Sound the way you want the character to sound. Once you've trained the instrument to do what you want, you're in control, and you're free.

Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.

My real fear with fighting is just not letting it go out there and hang out. I don't fear other guys. I'm just scared I'm not going to go out there and give everything I have. Like I'm only going to give a fraction of the things we trained and worked on.

At Brown, I trained in West African dance and drumming.

I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.

I loved doing ballet. I trained for two years.

I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.

AIs are only as good as the data they are trained on.

I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.

I have rhythm, but I'm not a trained dancer.

I trained at the Oxford School of Drama.

The skill set that I think we have as actors is so cool because they train you in ways that you never thought you'd be trained. And that's skills that they can't take back. So as you go further in your career, you can dump all these skills into things.

You have singers that are trained, and then you have natural singers: people that, in my opinion, were just born to sing. And hopefully, I am one of them.

I trained to sing well, but now I sing poorly for a living. That was money well spent.

I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love it. And being a song interpreter, to me, is just as important as, you know, putting your own thing out there. It's all about the soul - where the soul comes from.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.