June Squibb Quotes

Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

I'd studied acting in New York when I left Pierre - that was the big thing that I did. I worked very hard at it, actually.

As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.

When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.

I've never been in an acting class in my life.

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

I was not a trained actor.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.

With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.

I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

I was very fortunate to have gone to drama school in London for three years, and that was classical training in the sense that a lot of it was dominated by stage work, so I would love to go back to stage.

A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

Living in New York and doing a Broadway show is a dream come true. I've been training for this ever since I was five years old. Actually doing it and living my dream is incredible.

I grew up on sets so I've always felt like that I wanted to be a part of the acting world.