Alexander Hanson Quotes

I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

When I was in my teens, I thought, 'Would I like to try and work hard at being an actor, or do I want to work hard at doing something musical?' Acting won out, but I do really enjoy those moments where I get to just belt something out.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.'

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

I don't have actor training myself.

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.

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.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.

I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.

I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.

I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.

I learned how to act working in TV.

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