Ellen Barkin Quotes

I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

In my early days, I used to go to many acting gurus, Asha Chandra and Roshan Taneja being two of them.

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

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

I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

After being signed for 'Madras Cafe,' I joined Jogi Singh's acting classes, where I learned the basic nuances.

I can honestly say whatever I know about acting, all of it, I learned at 'GH.'

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.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

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.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

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

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

I could probably do a documentary on acting classes; I've taken so many.

I didn't study acting.

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

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

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.

For basically two years, I took acting classes and found my own stride in L.A.

I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.