Barry Levinson Quotes

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

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

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

I can honestly say whatever I know about acting, all of it, I learned at 'GH.'

I could probably do a documentary on acting classes; I've taken so many.

I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.

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

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I want to discover more things about acting.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

I love acting classes. I think they're great. It's like working out in the gym. It's a great place to figure out everything that's working and what isn't working.

I like talking about acting. I'm comfortable talking about acting.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.