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  • I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school. -- Charles S. Dutton
  • Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself. -- Adam Driver
  • I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared. -- Ursula Andress
  • The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students. -- Luke Ford
  • I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler. -- Judd Nelson
  • I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school. -- Nick Frost
  • You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.' -- Mickey Rourke
  • I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college. -- Dane DeHaan
  • Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together. -- Ajay Naidu
  • 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. -- Patrick Macnee
  • I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is. -- Wilford Brimley
  • I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated. -- Rupert Graves
  • To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you. -- Michael Imperioli
  • I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting. -- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else. -- Kara Hayward
  • I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky. -- Nolan Gerard Funk
  • My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera. -- Franka Potente
  • Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?' -- Annette Bening
  • When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. -- Anna Deavere Smith
  • African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka. -- Tracie Thoms
  • To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set. -- Ranbir Kapoor
  • To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder. -- Jane Levy
  • I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution. -- Jacqueline Bisset
  • An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes. -- Melissa Leo
  • I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see. -- Anna Deavere Smith
  • I started acting because I enjoyed school plays. -- Mayim Bialik
  • Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult. -- Emily Osment
  • I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes. -- Alice Englert
  • I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
  • Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares. -- Anupam Kher
  • The government gave me enough money to go to acting school. -- Tony Curtis
  • There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. -- Dennis Farina
  • In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession. -- Rashida Jones
  • Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird. -- Joe Pantoliano
  • I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel. -- Alison Lohman
  • I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. -- Justin Theroux
  • As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school. -- Megan Gallagher
  • It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. -- Steve Buscemi
  • I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting. -- Kaitlyn
  • I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting. -- Edward Burns
  • I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it. -- Rachel Dratch
  • I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far. -- John Ratzenberger
  • I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job. -- Denis Leary
  • I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school. -- Kevin Richardson
  • I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can. -- Georgie Henley
  • Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!" -- Mickey Rooney
  • I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred. -- Portia de Rossi
  • I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside. -- Felicity Jones
  • My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch. -- Brandon Jay McLaren
  • Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. -- Sara Paxton
  • I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school. -- Josie Loren
  • I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school. -- Celia Imrie
  • I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young. -- Dan Byrd
  • One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting. -- Maggie Smith
  • I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting. -- Ansel Elgort
  • I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler -- Judd Nelson
  • Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school. -- Helena Mattsson
  • I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. -- Rainn Wilson
  • It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays. -- Blythe Danner
  • I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films. -- Art Alexakis
  • I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it. -- Natasha Lyonne
  • I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. -- Eric Bogosian
  • In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting. -- Illeana Douglas
  • By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. -- Michael J. Fox
  • At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.' -- Ray Winstone
  • At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again. -- Ewan McGregor
  • I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. -- Aidan Turner
  • I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things. -- Barbra Streisand
  • I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays. -- Casey Wilson
  • I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture. -- Danny Bonaduce
  • I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess. -- Queen Latifah
  • I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school. -- Pawel Szajda
  • Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting. -- Emilia Clarke
  • I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life. -- Ben Schwartz
  • I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest. -- Jesse Williams
  • I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! -- Gwendoline Christie
  • I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy. -- Jim Sturgess
  • I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing. -- Stella Maeve
  • From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London. -- Ewan McGregor
  • I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer. -- Zooey Deschanel
  • I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow. -- Kara Hayward
  • It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons. -- Anna Chlumsky
  • Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. -- Beth Henley
  • She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting. -- George Burns
  • I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. -- Tommy Wiseau
  • If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.' -- Seth Numrich
  • I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
  • There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore. -- Sierra McCormick
  • After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby]. -- Paul Dalio
  • Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school. -- Jeremy Davies
  • I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting. -- Ethan Embry
  • I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19. -- Dustin Clare
  • I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday. -- Gillian Jacobs
  • 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. -- Jacqueline McKenzie
  • I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians. -- Martha Wainwright
  • I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience. -- Zoe Kravitz
  • I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school. -- Amy Ryan
  • I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school. -- Paul Dano
  • You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito! -- Penelope Cruz
  • I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.' -- Miles Teller
  • When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. -- Joan Collins
  • I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do. -- Jesse Eisenberg
  • I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it. -- Loni Anderson
  • My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school. -- Jillian Bach
  • I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting. -- Robbie Jones
  • When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world. -- Tyra Banks
  • I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood. -- Sherman Hemsley
  • For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do? -- Julia Garner
  • You don't learn acting, you nourish it. I don't regret not going to drama school because I was very afraid of all the lessons. I'm allergic to technicality. -- Romain Duris
  • When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. -- Wentworth Miller
  • When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. -- Michelle Dockery
  • McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular. -- Adam McKay
  • After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive! -- Megan Lee
  • 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. -- Barry Levinson
  • My parents' biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn't fathom me acting for the rest of my life. -- Mila Kunis
  • I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film. -- Carole King
  • I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained. -- LL Cool J
  • High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school. -- Jodi Sweetin
  • I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated. -- Rupert Graves
  • I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
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