Charlotte Rampling Quotes

I was not a trained actor.

Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And she had always lived somehow with that dream. And that is why, despite the fact that she became one of the most unusual and outstanding stars of all time, she herself was never satisfied. When she came to New York, she began to perceive the possibilities of really accomplishing her dream, of being an actress.

I wasn't working much. So I focused on studying, and I really learned what it means to be an actor. And here I was on Jonny Quest,working with all these great people from back in the golden age of Hollywood, who came up doing radio. These were journeymen, working actors. It made me proud, and gave me some insight into what acting was really about if you weren't a star.

As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

I never applied to any acting schools. I don't know if that's just bad reporting, or - sometimes I just make stuff up.

As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved.

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

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

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

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

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

I didn't really take a lot of any on-camera classes or anything like that. I really just threw all of my energy into auditioning, and I know that I basically just did things based on feedback that I would get.

It was a better time to be a young actor when I started out. There was a repertory system where you could go and practise.

Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.

I am not a trained actor. My real learning began on the sets.

As far as acting, I just went in and just started training. It was the first thing I did right when I retired. I just went in and found class, and found people, found the right coaches that could sort of just train me along.

I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.

Once I was in L.A., I realized anyone could act. Why not give it a shot? I started going to a ton of acting classes, and I found I had a real passion for it, probably the biggest passion I've ever had in my whole life.

On the acting side, they actually tell us to lie about things that we don't know and later scramble to learn. "Do you ride horses?" "Yes, I do." I think scrambling is the death of most of us in the industry.