No Formal Training Quotes

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

I did not go to film school.

My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.

I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

I got into modeling first, then acting came along pretty soon, and I landed my first role in a Korean drama without education, without any acting experience whatsoever.

I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be an actress. Business was something that had always been in my mind, but when I got into acting, I learned everything on set, and for me at that point, I wanted to excel at what I did.

I learned acting while doing my shows. I never joined any course or anything. I just jumped into acting. I learn from experience.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

I grew up singing in the church choir, but I've not really had any training.

I didn't study acting.

Nobody told me how to sing, so I just thought I'd try and sing like Howlin' Wolf. It was like a bark; there was melody to it - but I would go off a bit and I wouldn't stick AutoTune on it or anything to make it in key. Even now, I couldn't tell you about harmonies. I couldn't tell about what notes I'm singing because nobody taught me to sing.

I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me.

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

Steve hadn't been to acting school. He had no preconceived notions. His background was exactly what you see on television; he's done that all his life. We thought we'd do one show. What happened was, it did really well, so we did a part two. And from then on, we found that Steve's natural behavior in the wild happens to be fascinating!

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.