James Denton Quotes

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

I learned how to act working in TV.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.

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

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

I think my advice to other actors would be to get in classes. Get out in front of people. Put up scenes in front of your peers.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.