Erin Moran Quotes

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

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

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

It is the same actor in theatre and cinema, just the technique of acting changes.

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

I have such respect for guest actors. They don't know all the characters as deeply as the regulars, and the cast isn't your family, so you have more at stake.

I felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'

I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

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.

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 was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.