Stephen Colbert Quotes

I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get.

I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.

Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.

I've worked with a few coaches, and I did theater camp when I was younger, and I think what was good was when I was younger, it was never intense Interlochen theater camp.

As an actor, one should be aware of all their capabilities. This is important, as films are becoming more realistic.

Since I was a child, I've been playing children. When I was little, I was the kid that you'd hire to do the reading or workshop of your new material.

After being signed for 'Madras Cafe,' I joined Jogi Singh's acting classes, where I learned the basic nuances.

As an actor, you keep learning. There's no end to it.

It is important for an actor to play different roles.

In the beginning, it was quite challenging because I had zero acting experience, and delivering dialogues was the most difficult thing for me to do. But after I began to act, I grew as an artiste.

You have to have a lot of skills when you act; you might not have it when you start, but you definitely end up with a few skills along the way.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

I thought there would be a lot of, you know, transferable skills, from acting and comedy, but there weren't that many!

It is important for an actor to learn how to face a live audience.

I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.

I am not a trained actor. My real learning began on the sets.

I love directing actors. In the last few years, I have started expanding my directing into workshops for actors who truly want to grow and learn. My mom was a high school drama teacher, and teaching makes me very happy. My workshops are nurturing.

You can't learn acting through any classes.

As a good actor, I think you need to know camera, dubbing etc.

I haven't studied acting formally, so my 'university' was watching a lot cinema.

I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

As an actor, one should be open to all kinds of roles.

The best place to learn acting is your own home. Everyday there is a new drama and every day you get to learn something new in your own house. So I have learned a lot from there.

Theater school is essentially like training. It's boot camp. It's like an academy to put you through all these different situations that sometimes are more extreme than what you'll come across in the field. But now you're emotionally prepared for it so that when it does happen, it's not a big surprise.

Drama should be taught in schools to have more artistic people.