Matthew Lewis Quotes

I didn't go to acting school.

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.

I learned how to act working in TV.

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.'

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

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

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

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

I've acted since I was 5 years old, so that's still something I want to do.

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

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

I was never in an acting school. But I learned everything on the job like memorising lines, all the technicalities of theatre, how to use your voice and eyes and more.

I know that I want to consistently return to doing plays. That's one of the most important things because I think it's the best place for me to learn how to act.

I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.

When I first started acting, I knew that you have to learn different skills for different roles.

I'm not going back to acting class, although I've thought of it. The classic training that people get usually when they start out, I never had, and I always felt and still feel the lack of it, so there's a lot of basic stuff that I just don't have a clue about.

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.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

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

I didn't study acting.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.