Quotes About Training

I change my training probably every two months. The only thing that stays consistent is that I've become a pretty psychotic runner.

The problem with these UFC fighters - and they're all fantastic athletes, top of the line in the entire world - is that they wear their bodies down in these training camps. All these guys that are cutting weight are just destroying their own bodies.

Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.

Boxing's a bit like the Army, nine out of 10 people come out as pretty nice people. It taught me self-worth, to respect my elders and what the right thing was to do. As a result, I don't think I even got a single detention at school. It helped me to be good.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.

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

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which was founded by Laurence Olivier and has alumni like Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day Lewis. It's a very erudite institution; its ethos, really, was always theatre-based.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.

I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

Before entering into small screen or even films, every actor should do theatre first, as it is the best teacher of acting in its true sense.

It is good if newcomers have a theatre background. It helps in films.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

In 1954 I was on Broadway for five months in 'The Matchmaker' and went once a week to the classes of Uta Hagen, a theatrical guru whose teaching in retrospect illuminated the whole of my training at the Old Vic.

I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.

I am a product of National School of Drama and I always thought, why can't I get roles which will allow me to use my theatrical experiences.