Quotes About Acting

I am neither a method actor nor a trained one. So, I don't generally prepare for any role. Becoming the character and being in that moment are most important.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

I've had a pretty organic approach. I'm not Jessica Chastain. I'm not theatrically trained.

I love the way we do theatre in London: I love the fact that everybody is trained.

Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.

I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been learning.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

I'm theater trained.

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

I trained as a ballet dancer till I was 18, so I would really like to get back to it. I'd love it if there was a part that meant I could do both acting and ballet, as they're both so close to my heart.

When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.

I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

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

I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.