Ashish Sharma Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

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.

When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

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 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?'

I'd studied acting in New York when I left Pierre - that was the big thing that I did. I worked very hard at it, actually.

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

I was not a trained actor.

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.

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 wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

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

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.

When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'

I always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K.

I was very fortunate to have gone to drama school in London for three years, and that was classical training in the sense that a lot of it was dominated by stage work, so I would love to go back to stage.

I learnt acting in Delhi from Barry John, who also taught Shah Rukh Khan.

I would recommend any young person who wants to be an actor to go and get some training.