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I don't have actor training myself. -- John Hawkes
Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you arrive on the professional scene, the cream tends to rise, regardless of what school you attended. -- Rachel Hoffman
I don't think film actors need training, really. -- Paul Giamatti
My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre. -- Steve Buscemi
Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings. -- Alan Alda
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. -- Orson Scott Card
I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set. -- Eloise Mumford
I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do. -- Don Knotts
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. -- Steve Buscemi
Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal. -- Michael Cudlitz
Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. -- David Carradine
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film. -- George Clooney
It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working. -- Emory Cohen
I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself. -- Keegan Allen
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training. -- Christopher Walken
Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver. -- David Carradine
I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it. -- Glenne Headly
I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room. -- James Denton
I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself. -- Spalding Gray
Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy. -- Thomas Jane
I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part. -- David Rakoff
Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training. -- Signe Baumane
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. -- Stella Adler
You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen. -- Clint Eastwood
I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes. -- Rachel Hoffman
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

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