Quotes About Actor Training

#1. Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you arrive on the professional scene, the cream tends to rise, regardless of what school you attended.

Rachel Hoffman

#2. I don't have actor training myself.

John Hawkes

#3. Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.

Richard Hornby

#4. I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.

Steve Buscemi

#5. Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

Anthony Anderson

#6. I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."

Condola Rashad

#7. I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Benjamin Bratt

#8. Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

Christopher Walken

#9. Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

Signe Baumane

#10. I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

Spalding Gray

#11. I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.

Eloise Mumford

#12. I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself.

Keegan Allen

#13. I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

George Clooney

#14. Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

Jason Alexander

#15. My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Orson Scott Card

#16. It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

Emory Cohen

#17. Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.

Bill Nighy

#18. I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.

David Rakoff

#19. Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

Alan Alda

#20. You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

Clint Eastwood

#21. I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.

Jaime Camil

#22. controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day - would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's

Wil Haygood

#23. Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

David Carradine

#24. I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

John Hawkes

#25. Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#26. Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

Sam Claflin

#27. There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.

Adam Driver

#28. For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll work at all on the stage or in film', so I feel I have to take all the opportunities I can.

Dominic Cooper

#29. As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

David Schwimmer

#30. Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error.

Dylan Bruce

#31. I went to Northampton College of Further Education. I left there - when I was 16, I left Kingsthorpe Upper - and I went and did a diploma in performing arts, so it was my start in the training process to becoming an actor.

Marc Warren

#32. I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

Rachel Hoffman

#33. I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

LL Cool J

#34. The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

Stella Adler

#35. A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.

Edwin Booth

#36. I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

Steve Buscemi

#38. There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

Erika Slezak