LL Cool J Quotes

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

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

I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

I don't have actor training myself.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.

I have a coach, but I'm not theater-trained or a technical actor.

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 love learning on set, it's the best acting school ever.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.

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

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.