John Corbett Quotes

If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

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

I never went to drama school.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

I never attended any acting school, though I've done theatre workshops a couple of times, and it has been an extremely enriching experience. But beyond that, I don't want to acquire the skills of acting and use them on camera. I'd rather learn on the job.

I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.

I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.

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

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

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 didn't study acting.

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I didn't go to acting school.

I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.