Kenan Thompson Quotes

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.

I'm from Chicago. And I was an actor in high school and college, and I wanted to see if I could make a run of it in this job. So, I went downtown in Chicago, and I went up on a stand-up stage and did an open mic. It went well, so I'm like, 'Alright, I'll give it another try.'

I didn't go to no school for acting. I learned it all by trial and error.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

I had a period without acting work, and I took a job as a cocktail server. In 'Stick Fly,' my character has to carry a tray, and I knew how to do it because of the job.

I'm an actor because of movies like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Jurassic Park.'

I really had the best time on 'Mad Men.' It was a wonderful place for me, because I never went to an acting school or anything like that, so 'Mad Men' was kind of my training.

I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.

Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.

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

I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.

I've been a fan of all things Marvel since I was a kid, so now, working with the company and playing a superhero on screen is pretty cool.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.

I love Mel Gibson... I'd like to ask him for a job.