Acting Classes Quotes - Page 2

• I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the most beautiful girl I had ever known, and she was taking an acting class, so I decided to take the same acting class. And I was a terrible actor in college.

  Kurt Fuller

  Beautiful, Girl, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

  Michael Imperioli

  Class, Acting, Firsts

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• I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

  Nicole Kidman

  Class, Giving, Acting

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• I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.

  Adepero Oduye

  Senior, College, Years

  "Q&A: 'Pariah' star Adepero Oduye is on the cups of stardom". Interview with Nigel Smith, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2011.

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• I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Class, Acting, Actors

  "Actor gets the word out on stuttering" by Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.

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• When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  College, Years, Class

  "Interview: Mary-Kate Mary-Kate Olsen" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2008.

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• My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

  Robert De Niro

  Mother, Husband, School

  "New Again: Robert De Niro". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, Colleen Kelsey and Peter Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

  Christopher Meloni

  Couple, Boys, College

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• My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.

  NeNe Leakes

  Stars, Taken, Fighting

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• I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

  Teri Garr

  Class, Acting, Eric

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. July 22, 2008.

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• If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.

  Tina Fey

  Class, Skills, People

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Every director should take an acting class.

  Paul Feig

  Class, Acting, Directors

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• In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

  Larry David

  Army, Years, Class

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• Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

  Lauren Conrad

  Class, Acting, Sides

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• I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

  Tim Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophy

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• I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

  Barbra Streisand

  Class, Acting, Actresses

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• Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

  Lynn Shelton

  Class, Voice, Acting

  "Filmmaker Lynn Shelton: ‘There’s This Real Deliciousness To Being Able To Do Exactly What You Want To Do’" by Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 05, 2013.

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• I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it.

  Jon Bernthal

  Sports, Teacher, Art

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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• I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

  Blake Lively

  Class, Parent, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.

  Dianna Agron

  Good Day, Class, Goal

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• I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

  Kyle Chandler

  Jobs, Class, Acting

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

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• I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

  Josh Brolin

  School, Class, Acting

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

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• Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

  Frankie Muniz

  Class, Acting, Technique

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

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• Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Class, Acting, Peter

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• I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

  Rainn Wilson

  School, Years, Class

  "Rainn Wilson: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 24, 2011.

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