Trace Adkins Quotes

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

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

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

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.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

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 studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

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

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

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.

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

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.

In 1954 I was on Broadway for five months in 'The Matchmaker' and went once a week to the classes of Uta Hagen, a theatrical guru whose teaching in retrospect illuminated the whole of my training at the Old Vic.

I can honestly say whatever I know about acting, all of it, I learned at 'GH.'

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.

As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

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

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.