Formal Training Quotes

As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have started with a great advantage. If you have a strong intent to do anything in life, you can do it, but it always helps to have formal training.

I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

I'm not interested in on-the-job learning or on-the-job training.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.

After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.

Both my parents have done considerable work in theatre and I have grown up with that culture, but I still felt that I needed formal training.

I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.

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 do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I've had no formal acting training.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

In my research, I learned that the Boxers' kung fu wasn't all that formalized. The vast majority of them didn't belong to some age-old martial arts tradition. They were basically poor, starving teenagers doing the best they could to figure out how to fight, relying more on their mystical beliefs than formal training.

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

I am not a dancer. In fact, I have no formal training in dance.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.

It's like I've been in music school my whole life.

I've never been in an acting class in my life.