Quotes About Training

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.

The studios knew how to build a star, and they knew what to do with you. They also taught you everything.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I was playing at sixth form - training in the morning and going to the gym in the afternoon. I was doing my studying alongside it; then I'd go to training from eight to 10 at night.

I'm getting to put all my time and effort into studying my martial arts and to be the best fighter I can be.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.

Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and most important thing is to determine its detailed molecular structure.

I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules.

Having full-time classes, it doesn't really work out because there's so much workload and so much studying that you really don't have time to train. I'd stay up until two or three in the morning just studying, and then I'd have to go get a few miles running, work out at the gym super late, and try to get my working out in late at night.

I started studying Jeet Kune Do in my early 20s.

I'm telling you, studying for week to week in the NFL, and memorization, and reflexive recall... you have to drive it into your brain so far.

I really work at a part to do it to the best of my ability. And I'm studying acting as well as keeping up with my singing and dancing lessons.

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

Some guys want to sit out preseason games and stuff like that. For me, I need my reps to feel comfortable.

Preparing for a stunt is like training for a sporting event.

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.