Paul Newman Quotes

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

After being signed for 'Madras Cafe,' I joined Jogi Singh's acting classes, where I learned the basic nuances.

I can honestly say whatever I know about acting, all of it, I learned at 'GH.'

I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

I didn't study acting.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

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

I don't have actor training myself.

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.