Greg Kinnear Quotes

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

My teachers probably tried to get me interested in other things at school, but I was very young when I decided that I wanted to act. By the time I was 12, I was hell-bent on it.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

I grew up doing plays - I went to a stage school after school - and it's always something that I've wanted to do, but, in a weird way, if you do television and film and you didn't go to drama school and don't have a theatrical background, it's hard to get your foot in the door. In the same way that it is for theater actors to get into television and film. There's a weird prejudice that goes both ways.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].

Acting is something that I couldn't recommend to anyone because the odds of it working out are so insane. I don't know how it worked out for me. I had no connections to this industry. I had no ins anywhere.

I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.

I always loved acting, but it's weird to think what I'd be doing if this hadn't come around. It's kind of a bit of a fluke how I got into it, so I'm grateful.

I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'

I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my dream.

My father came to Hyderabad to become an actor, took an acting course, and realised he was camera conscious.