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I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about ... BERTIE CARVEL I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love wi...
KATHERINE WATERSTON I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.
JOHN BOYEGA
Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good.... STELLA ADLER I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.
HARRY HAMLIN I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.
BILL BUCKNER Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the the...
CARY-HIROYUKI TAGAWA
I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition. SARAH SNOOK
Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stell... MARIE WINDSOR I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
KATE BOSWORTH Before my acting took off, I drove a truck for an inventory company throughout the northeast, but my...
DORIAN MISSICK My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I...
ANTONIA THOMAS
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belitt... RHYS IFANS
The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continue... LAURA MENNELL My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when ...
KAPIL SHARMA
Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the ... SAMUEL BECKETT
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a mov... VANESSA HUDGENS Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, t...
HUGH GRANT I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater...
OLIVIA COOKE
When I’m given a role, the first thing I do is read the play over and over again. I scour the scri... TOM HIDDLESTON
“A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think... CARLOS CASTANEDA My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that mad...
SKYLAR ASTIN Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories...
KELSEY CHOW
I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the c... IAN MCKELLEN I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
VICTORIA PRATT From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in L...
EWAN MCGREGOR
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I ... UTA HAGEN Well, my brother started acting before I did.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a...
MEGAN PARK Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium...
ARTHUR LOWE
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth... IAN MCKELLEN I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was i...
GABY HOFFMANN My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a ...
QUINN SHEPHARD I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my ...
OLIVIA CULPO Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of peopl...
SAM HEUGHAN I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting ...
SAM CLAFLIN Just like i said before, I am not into the acting or instrumental like the others, and I have NO ide...
ANGEL CARTER He was not acting in his official capacity.
ANDREW BOWMAN
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He g... JONAH HILL She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was... NIGEL HAMILTON
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning act... MICHAEL J. FOX My role in 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a cameo, but it did expose me to cinema and took me to ...
ARFI LAMBA I had travelled to a lot of cities in Europe before, but Prague was special. It held a mysterious at...
ARFI LAMBA
I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level ... CHRIS EVANS I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard the...
VIJAY SETHUPATHI
I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my ... CHRIS EVANS I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and t...
BROOKE ELLIOTT
I'm definitely shy, so it was definitely acting for me to drop a trench coat and be in a bikini and ... JESSICA SIMPSON I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school t...
DANE DEHAAN I need to keep honing my skills as a coach otherwise I'll go off the boil.
SHAUN EDWARDS
My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs ... AJAY NAIDU When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do nat...
EDDIE MARSAN
My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sister... JULIETTE LEWIS I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse yo...
CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON In my opinion, it was probably the worst case of legislation and bad acting I've seen in 20 years. I...
LANCE NESS I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.
DAVID ALAN GRIER It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on s...
FELICITY KENDAL My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD
In my late teens and early 20s, I worked hard on my roles, but, to be honest, I didn't feel any ... SONG HYE-KYO It's a little payback. He was acting like he had 10 years in the league.
EDDIE GUARDADO I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
KEELEY HAWES
I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by... HOLLY HUNTER
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. CARLOS CASTANEDA If you think that you are the only one who is right then please consult someone; If you believe that...
DINESH KUMAR
All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that h... LEO TOLSTOY I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.
BRIAN SPELLMAN I chose it because we hadn't done anything like it before. The kids need to experience that kind of ...
AMY COLEMAN It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate ...
CLINTON SPARKS
I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting. WOODY HARRELSON I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the sc...
TERI GARR My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.
DAVID RABE I thought I was acting, not improperly, but in the best interest of the county.
DONALD MANCINI It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing...
JAMES COBURN
Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways. JENNIFER CAPRIATI I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, muc...
ROGER BART
In my opinion, what's right is charges be dismissed. He was acting in self-defense. He feels remorse... JEFF ZUCKER
I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that. CATHERINE BELL
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not...
YURI LOWENTHAL
I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great act... DAVID COSTABILE The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body th...
JOAN ARK I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body th...
JOAN VAN ARK I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - Calif...
ALEX ROCCO
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS
He and Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift — the three of them — represented a new age in acting.... JOHN TRAVOLTA
By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to ... DAVID MORSE Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.
CHARLES DURNING Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing...
CAITY LOTZ
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teache... AJAY NAIDU
I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chas... BRIE LARSON
I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before. MEL GIBSON Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of b...
CALLIE HERNANDEZ
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any ... DOROTHEA BRANDE
Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time. ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I got interested in the 8th Texas when I learned there was a captain with my name in the unit. We've...
TOM HEWITT The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti...
CAMPBELL SCOTT
