Jenn Proske Quotes

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

I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

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.

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

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

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

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

Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

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 know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.

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.

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.

I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.

I'd taken some classes at UCB in New York and again at the Magnet Theater and the PIT Theater. I definitely never advanced to where I was on a team or anything like that.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.

I actually studied with The Groundlings.

Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

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.

My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew.