Voice and Movement Quotes

To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'

You're not going to learn about acting on TV and in film. You'll learn more in plays and in class.

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

I'm not going back to acting class, although I've thought of it. The classic training that people get usually when they start out, I never had, and I always felt and still feel the lack of it, so there's a lot of basic stuff that I just don't have a clue about.

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

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.

I did three years training for stage in drama school.

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

I did drama school in Delhi. I am glad I studied in a school where cultural activities were significant.

I don't have actor training myself.

I have a coach, but I'm not theater-trained or a technical actor.

I never went to drama school.

I went to drama school at New York University.

Acting is learnt, not taught.

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

Because when you're in drama school, you're playing multiple characters at once. You know, in the morning you're doing a Chekhov play, and then you're doing a Shakespeare workshop midday.

You can really get your chops in shape in the resident theatres, and I urge anyone to investigate them and to be willing to go anywhere to pursue the great roles.

Acting is my interest, but it opens up avenues.