Albert Brooks Quotes

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.

To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

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 didn't go to acting school.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

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

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, 'You should take an acting class. It's just like recess.' So I viewed it as a simple credit.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

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 find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

I didn't study acting.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.

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 had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

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 had to study acting to basically educate myself.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

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

I haven't actually studied acting at all.