Miranda Cosgrove Quotes

I'd always dabbled in acting.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.

It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in 'Macbeth.'

I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.

If I get back into theater, I think I'd want to do a play. I enjoy singing, but it beats me up a bit. I get super paranoid and self-conscious about my voice.

For me, the audition is always the hardest part of the whole process. Once you get on set, once you're in costume, you're with the director, it's so much easier to get in the headspace.

I never did any acting in school. There was only one play in which I participated and it had no dialogues for me.

When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.