David Ginola Quotes

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

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

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

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

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.'

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

I would recommend any young person who wants to be an actor to go and get some training.

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

I never went to drama school.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

In my early days, I used to go to many acting gurus, Asha Chandra and Roshan Taneja being two of them.

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.

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.

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

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

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

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.