Thomas Middleditch Quotes

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

I learnt acting in Delhi from Barry John, who also taught Shah Rukh Khan.

I was not a trained actor.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.

I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent.

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

I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

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.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

I consider myself an actor that tries to have as many tools as possible in the bag. And I think that includes the method, then of course it includes some improv techniques, and includes all kinds of different things, because you never know when you're going to have to work on something and in what way.

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

At Julliard, they don't teach you where to move your face for the camera, you know?

I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at the end of my junior year. I had come to Chicago for Northwestern University. I didn't quite know about the theater community, and what I did know was mostly the improv.

In Jaipur, I did almost everything from regional theatre to Shakespeare's plays. But when I shifted to Mumbai, I joined Anupam Kher's academy, Actor Prepares, to hone my acting skills.

As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

I did theater summer camps when I was a kid, and I enjoyed them, but they never felt quite right. But then there would always be a tiny improv workshop towards the end of camp, and I would always feel like I liked it so much better.

Theater school is essentially like training. It's boot camp. It's like an academy to put you through all these different situations that sometimes are more extreme than what you'll come across in the field. But now you're emotionally prepared for it so that when it does happen, it's not a big surprise.

I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on the back of 'The Irish Times,' and I went along for an audition, very pragmatically, to see if I could do it or not.

I didn't have the luxury of going to the four year school for acting.

Performing for WWE did so much for me in terms of teaching me how to act and doing fighting scenes.