Quotes About Acting

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.

I actually studied with The Groundlings.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

I never actively went out and studied the American accent. I just came over here to the States, and it was something I was able to do. Like, I never struggled with it.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I had agents in Australia; I just never had any auditions. And if you can't audition, then you can't work. I studied there. I did classes there. I learned how to act. Growing up there, I discovered my love for acting, but I just wasn't getting the opportunities to work professionally.

I didn't study interviews. I studied acting.

When I studied at Juilliard, I did a lot of pushups and became this diesel machine. I was really big and was like, 'This is not a good look for an ingenue.'

I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

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

You see, I've never really studied acting.

I haven't actually studied acting at all.

I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

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