Andrew Keenan-Bolger Quotes

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist.

Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.

I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.

In 1954 I was on Broadway for five months in 'The Matchmaker' and went once a week to the classes of Uta Hagen, a theatrical guru whose teaching in retrospect illuminated the whole of my training at the Old Vic.

If you want to deliver as an actor, you need to know the language. If you don't know what you are mouthing, how will you perform? For me, it is important to know the language.

I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire.

It's important for an actor to self-analyze.

I trained in musical theatre and when I left drama school I worked on a lot of productions like 'Greece' and 'The Secret Garden' before landing the part in 'EastEnders.'

There is always a producer within an actor. You just wait for the right time to start functioning as one.

I want to take acting lessons first. But I'd love to find the right film, a 'Breakfast Club' kind of thing.

I trained in London as a classical actor, but you've no idea what way your career will go.

Ryerson helped me because I was around acting all the time. It was pretty much all I thought about, even if I didn't really get to practice every day; I definitely thought about it. Actually a lot of it was just sitting and watching, especially in my last year, but I think a good actor learns from everything.

I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with acting. A professor came to the dorm where I lived looking for people to audition for an August Wilson play, 'Joe Turner's Come And Gone.' I gave it a shot, got one of the lead roles in the play.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

As actors, we shouldn't worry too much about the language we are going to speak in a film.

No, I haven't taken training as such but I used to attend all those 7 day workshops before the play. Those workshops aren't so professional but it's enough to give you a good idea what acting is all about.