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I was in Mumbai pursuing my graduation in mass media; I was not sure what to do. I tried my hand at a couple of different things. I joined an acting school after that and eventually things fell in place.
Ishita Dutta /
Graduation
Acting
Couple
Different Things
Mass
Mass Media
Media
Mumbai
School
Acting School
Sure
After
Eventually
Fell
Hand
Joined
Place
Pursuing
Tried
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I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.
Nolan Gerard Funk / Actor
Acting
Decided
Dentist
Lucky
Toothache
Acting School
Enroll
Guess
Talked
Turned
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I have never been to an acting school, and on the sets of 'Karwaan,' Irrfan was my acting school. By observing him, I learnt to improvise in the scenes along with focusing on the smallest of the details.
Mithila Palkar /
Observing
Smallest
Acting School
Focusing
Improvise
Learnt
Sets
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A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I played Raskolnikov. It was actually the first thing I did when I got out of acting school.
Joel Kinnaman / Actor
Adaptation
Punishment
Acting School
First Thing
The First Thing
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I remember getting out of acting school and friends of mine talking about, like, 'You know, I don't think I'm gonna do TV.' Like, people putting on these airs of being picky. And I was never a snob about it.
Adam Scott /
Picky
Acting School
Remember People Never
Remember People School
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I grew up in Bellport, Long Island where I attended Gateway Acting School and met Robin Allan. She was the school's director who took me under her wing and was the one who told me that I could do this for real.
Brendan Dooling / Actor
Long Island
Acting School
Where Me Long
Me Long School
Attended
Director
Gateway
Island
Met
Robin
Wing
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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.
Betty Buckley / Film Actress
Coaches
Realistic
Truthful
Life Work Good
Acting School
Trained
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I've done 480-odd films, have my own acting school, won awards, etc. and now host a successful TV chat show - what else can I ask for? Yes, of course, every journey has its ups and downs, but that's part of life.
Anupam Kher / Actor
Awards
Etc
Host
Acting School
Chat
Downs
Ups
Ups And Downs
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I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of actors, it's everyone self-consciously having a social experience rather than just having a social experience.
Adam Scott /
Bunch
Acting School
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I did theatre a lot when I was a kid. Then I went to acting school in New York. I did a lot of behind the scenes in college. I wanted to learn while I had the time. I studied theatre and film in different capacities.
Justin Bartha / Actor
Kids
New York
School
Theatre
Acting School
Time New School
Capacities
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After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to.
Thomas Middleditch / Actor
Chicago
Dropping
Acting School
Improv
Subsequently
Workshop
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I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on the back of 'The Irish Times,' and I went along for an audition, very pragmatically, to see if I could do it or not.
Liam Cunningham /
If I Could
Acting School
Movies Always See
Ad
Audition
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I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.
Karan Patel /
Dance
Acting
Theatre
Acting School
Began
Course
Prepare
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I was failed in all other aspects of filmmaking and was completely bankrupt because my dreams were higher than realities. So I started my acting school in a small room with 12 students to prepare future actors and actresses.
Anupam Kher / Actor
Filmmaking
Acting School
Aspects
Failed
Prepare
Realities
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I'm not a trained actor. I have neither read acting books nor gone to acting school. But I have certain fundamentals on how I approach a character; the basic skeleton of my preparation is based on observations from real life.
Vikrant Massey /
Fundamentals
Preparation
Acting School
Observations
Skeleton
Trained
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I was going to be in an acting school in London, and then I promptly got thrown out of an acting school in London. Well, it wasn't that I got thrown out as much as I was not invited back, which is the same thing, just more polite.
Chris Eigeman /
Invited
Polite
Thrown
Acting School
Promptly
Same Thing
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Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
Kara Hayward / Film Actress
Humor
Admire
Balance
Intelligent
School
Sense Of Humor
Two
Watson
Life Love Great
Life Love Humor
Acting School
Actress
Talented
Everything Else
Great Sense
Stone
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
Nancy Marchand /
Lines
Making Up
Acting School
Adventures
Written Down
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I grew up poor, financially lower class. Worked in restaurants for 17 years while going to acting school and trying to become a working actor. Because I know what it's like to not have money, I turn down roles if I don't want to play them.
Asia Kate Dillon /
Lower Class
Restaurants
Acting School
Financially
Working Actor
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
Ranbir Kapoor / Actor
Dance
Intelligent
Your Body
Life Work Great
Acting School
Classes
Tap
Dance Classes
Draw
Emotions
Great Actor
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I never attended any acting school, though I've done theatre workshops a couple of times, and it has been an extremely enriching experience. But beyond that, I don't want to acquire the skills of acting and use them on camera. I'd rather learn on the job.
Ishaan Khatter /
Acquire
Enriching
Workshops
Acting School
Attended
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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
Anna Deavere Smith / Actress
Jobs
Fashion
Hiring
Nice
Roots
School
Acting School
Society Great Me
African
Gotten
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My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.
Franka Potente / Film Actress
Acting
Movie Theater
School
Skills
Small Town
Work Myself Always
Acting School
Background
Camera
Onstage
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Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'
Annette Bening / Actress
Attorney
Defense
Point Of View
Acting School
Defend
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I didn't know what acting school was, so I went onto the computer and typed 'acting school.' I found one in Berlin, and I found ones in Vienna, Zurich, and London. I went to all of those places to audition. You were supposed to have two monologues, and I only had one.
Vicky Krieps / Actress
Berlin
Monologues
Vienna
Acting School
Know School Acting
Audition
Onto
Typed
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When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.
Alice Ripley /
Unemployed
Acting School
Twenty
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It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
Lupita Nyong'o / Film Actress
Experience
Funny
Acting
Circumstances
School
Taught
Thinking
Understanding
Acting School
Deeply
Learn
Lend
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Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
Boman Irani / Film Actor
Agree
Different Characters
Acting School
Best Me School
Attended
Customer
Observed
Shop
Picked
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Tanushree taught me how to do make-up when I didn't even know how to hold a brush, She encouraged me to go to acting school when I was not confident about my personality and acting. She even got my pictures done by the best photographers in town. She motivated me to do my best.
Ishita Dutta /
Motivated
Acting School
Brush
Encouraged
Photographers
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I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.
Michael Redhill / Poet
Satisfying
Acting School
Life Character Yourself
Applied
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I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.
Jacqueline Bisset / Actress
Jobs
Contribution
Illumination
Light
Massive
Modeling
School
Acting School
Aspired
Photographers
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I always thought it'd be cool to portray these certain things, make people feel a certain way. I was kind of fascinated with that, but I wasn't the type to do acting school or theater. I didn't have the best views of Hollywood, so it wasn't something that I was going to try and pursue.
Sasha Lane /
Cool
Acting
Certain
Fascinated
Hollywood
Pursue
School
Theater
Type
Views
Best Always People
Cool Best Always
Acting School
Certain Things
Portray
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When I first went to acting school, they made me lose my accent, which is very upsetting for me. The first day of Shakespeare class, I remember the professor was like, 'Oh, boy. Oh no, no, no, no. No, no, no,' and sent me to a voice and speech class to get rid of the accent immediately.
Melissa Rauch / Actress
Acting
Class
Speech
Voice
Me Day Remember
Me Lose Day
Accent
Acting School
Boy
Oh
Me Remember Day
Immediately
Lose
Professor
Rid
Sent
Shakespeare
Upsetting
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The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.
Marion Cotillard / Actress
Time Experience Always
Acting School
Lady
Macbeth
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
Anna Deavere Smith / Actress
Taboo
Work True Way
Acting School
Work Will Way
Debates
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To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder.
Jane Levy / Film Actress
Method
Muscle
Work Day People
Acting School
Work Day Bad
Every Single Day
Exercising
Pushes
Safe Place
Single Day
To Be Honest
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African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka.
Tracie Thoms / Television Actress
African American
August
Juilliard
Wilson
Work Always Culture
Acting School
Forced
Ours
Shakespeare
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I went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It's hard for anybody to get work. When I was trying to get jobs, I felt a responsibility to be respectful of the opportunities and take challenging things that could be interesting both for me as an actor and for the audience.
Billy Crudup / Actor
Respectful
Acting School
Twenty
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An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.
Melissa Leo / Actress
Acting
Careful
Cigarette
England
Play
Props
School
Smoke
Wonderful
Love Face Your
Acting School
Actor
Bring
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Steve hadn't been to acting school. He had no preconceived notions. His background was exactly what you see on television; he's done that all his life. We thought we'd do one show. What happened was, it did really well, so we did a part two. And from then on, we found that Steve's natural behavior in the wild happens to be fascinating!
Terri Irwin / Naturalist
Fascinating
Acting School
Wild
Exactly What
Notions
Preconceived
Steve
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At 15, I refereed my first match, and I was training at my dad's school even prior to that, so the only thing that I was concerned about - I guess the only thing that made me reluctant and was the reason I was in L.A. and the reason I went to acting school - was I thought maybe I wasn't big enough - physically big enough - to compete with WWE.
Cody Rhodes / Professional Wrestler
Reluctant
Wwe
Dad Enough Me
Acting School
Big Enough
Dad Me Training
Compete
Prior
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