Lamorne Morris Quotes

Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.

In Jaipur, I did almost everything from regional theatre to Shakespeare's plays. But when I shifted to Mumbai, I joined Anupam Kher's academy, Actor Prepares, to hone my acting skills.

I'm the type of actor that, if I'm not filming something, I'm in class.

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.

I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.

If I can't act, I would go to college and maybe be a veterinarian.

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.