James Callis Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

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.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

No, I haven't taken training as such but I used to attend all those 7 day workshops before the play. Those workshops aren't so professional but it's enough to give you a good idea what acting is all about.

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

I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.

Naseer Sir taught me while I was a student at the Film and Television Institute of India. Anything I know about acting is thanks to him.

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.

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.

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.

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

I never went to drama school.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

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.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.