Joe Mantegna Quotes

My mom pushed me to take drama class.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

I went to drama school.

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

I started at drama school at 18.

Do as much theatre as you can while you're at school.

I loved drama class at school. I never took it seriously, as I was playing football. But maybe when I retire, I'll have a dabble.

I studied drama.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

Acting is the way I make my living.

I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own.

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

Acting truly is a love of mine.

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.

Acting is something I love.

I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it. I never saw it as a career. At around 16, I knew what I wanted to do.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

Acting is something I'm extremely passionate about.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.