Acting Coaches Quotes

I never planned to become an actor.

As far as acting, I just went in and just started training. It was the first thing I did right when I retired. I just went in and found class, and found people, found the right coaches that could sort of just train me along.

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

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.

Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.

When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

Actors are real. It's a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television show called 'M.I. High,' which I ended up doing for two years.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.

But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

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.

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.