Kiernan Shipka Quotes

'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

Working with a full Hollywood team has been an awesome learning experience, and I definitely want to pursue acting more.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

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

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

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.

I didn't go to acting school.

I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

Acting has been very useful to me.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

Not that I'm in the stage of my career where they're offering me parts in 'The Revenant,' but I try very hard to go through the audition process because I feel like I learn quite a lot about the character and the people I'm going to work with.

'Southland' was really where I learned so much about drama.

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

I am not a trained actor. My real learning began on the sets.

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

I love learning on set, it's the best acting school ever.

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.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.