Dane DeHaan Quotes

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

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

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.'

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

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

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

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

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

Naseer Sir taught me while I was a student at the Film and Television Institute of India. Anything I know about acting is thanks to him.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

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

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

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

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

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

I never went to drama school.

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.

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.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

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