Acting Classes Quotes

When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.

I never planned to become an actor.

I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.

When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

My desire to be an actor or a model precedes my identity.

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'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.

I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

As far as acting, I just went in and just started training. It was the first thing I did right when I retired. I just went in and found class, and found people, found the right coaches that could sort of just train me along.

Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

I didn't intend to become an actor.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.

When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

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

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.