Margot Kidder Quotes

I never went to drama school.

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 always knew I wanted to be an actress, and I had the attitude that I would learn more under people like Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne or Mike Myers than from someone who had never starred in a movie. I just didn't think that someone who had never been in a movie could teach me how to act in one.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

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

I didn't go to acting school.

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.

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.

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

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.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

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

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

I haven't actually studied acting at all.

You're not going to learn about acting on TV and in film. You'll learn more in plays and in class.

I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.

Because when you're in drama school, you're playing multiple characters at once. You know, in the morning you're doing a Chekhov play, and then you're doing a Shakespeare workshop midday.

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

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

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I go to an acting class every Sunday.

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

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.