Acting Classes Quotes

• I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

  Ryan Reynolds

  Class, Skills, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Class, Acting, Express Yourself

  "Actor Jesse Eisenberg Creates A Zuckerberg Profile For The Social Network". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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• I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Class, People, Acting

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: 'There Is Always a Backlash'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

  John Mahoney

  Opposites, Class, Play

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• I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.

  Rila Fukushima

  Dream, Class, Acting

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• I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

  Debby Ryan

  Class, Names, Acting

  "Debby Ryan On ‘Secret Of The Wings,’ ‘JESSIE,’ And Her Most Daring Decision". Interview with Hannah Orenstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2012.

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• In acting class they tell you that you have to be real, connect with the people, connect with your partner. The same as politics, you have to connect to the people.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Real, Class, People

  Source: screenrant.com

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• In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach

  College, Class, Get Better

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• I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

  Christine Lakin

  Kids, Ucla, Class

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• In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

  Hill Harper

  Teacher, Character, Class

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• I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

  Trevor Donovan

  School, Class, Design

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• When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

  Albert Brooks

  Couple, Class, Insecurity

  "Auteur Albert Brooks Feels the "Drive". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Friday, Monday, Real

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• In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldnt call on me.

  Peggy Lipton

  Teacher, Class, Acting

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• I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

  Aaron Paul

  Thinking, Class, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.

  Jay Ellis

  Jobs, Years, Class

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• I'm not a big fan of training, at all. I really don't like it. I've done a few acting classes and I've just hated them. I think they train you to do something, and sometimes you might not be able to break out of it. Acting is lying, and lying is acting. So, I just prefer to read the script and do it my own way.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Lying, Thinking, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

  Naomi Watts

  Thinking, Class, Let It Go

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I first started [taking acting classes] I sort of stuck my toes in but I was so nervous I didn't know if I could go all the way. I was so scared about it for some reason. The more confident I got with it, the more I just fell in love with it. I love going to work every day and trying to make the most of the stuff I've been given.

  Josh Duhamel

  Class, Trying, Acting

  "Transformers - Josh Duhamel interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I go to an acting class every Sunday.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Sunday, Class, Acting

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• In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids in classes and the teachers would make it a point that I was the entertainer of the class, but only after high school and in college that I started doing theater and acting classes, because I thought it would be fun.

  Michael Jai White

  Teacher, Fun, School

  "Interview with Falcon Rising star and martial artist Michael Jai White". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. September 8, 2014.

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• I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Hate, Class, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

  Eva Mendes

  Taken, Class, Acting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's the scariest thing in the world, going to acting class, because first of all, there's a lot of pressure. I just go back to being that fourth grader who couldn't, like, sit still in her seat.

  Eva Mendes

  Class, Acting, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

  Queen Latifah

  Class, Acting, Ham

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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