Lucas Grabeel Quotes

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

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

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

I used to have this idea that you can spend years in the movies and TV and then, at the drop of a hat, say 'Oh, I'll go back and do the theater.'

The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

I always wanted to be an actor. My first professional job was at 19, working in New York theater.

I did 'Damnation' on USA, and hopefully I keep picking up smaller roles and learn the craft.

I'm grateful to be in school developing my practice as an actor. In that process, it's difficult to say that you've definitively 'learned' something.

I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I'm still learning. It's exciting.

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.