Daniella Alonso Quotes

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

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 got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

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

In Jaipur, I did almost everything from regional theatre to Shakespeare's plays. But when I shifted to Mumbai, I joined Anupam Kher's academy, Actor Prepares, to hone my acting skills.

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

I was not a trained actor.

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.

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

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

'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

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.

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.

I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

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 have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

I just want to be a better actor. You can always get better.

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

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 was so green, and my background was mostly in theater. The only thing I'd done in front of a camera, besides an infomercial and one commercial, was 'Brothers McMullen.'

I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.