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Acting Class Quotes

Where the craft is practiced, and where it's proven.

These acting class quotes cover why people took the class in the first place, from simple curiosity to genuinely overcoming shyness and fear of public speaking. See our College quotes, since several of these memories start on campus.

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.

Quotes by Aaron Paul

I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, 'You should take an acting class. It's just like recess.' So I viewed it as a...

Quotes by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

Quotes by Wendi McLendon-Covey

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.

Quotes by Trevor Donovan

Acting Quotes

I remember having friends in high school that did the theater department stuff, and I always wanted to try it but never had the guts to. I was the class clown but could never really build up the courage to...

Quotes by Robert Buckley

I'm not going to take up an acting class in order to get a fight. That is not what I've worked my entire life to do. It's not what I've been living for.

Quotes by Raphael Assuncao

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

Quotes by Nicholas Lea

I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.

Quotes by Moises Arias

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.

Quotes by Michael Imperioli

Best Quotes

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more...

Quotes by Melissa Ordway

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned...

Quotes by Matisyahu

I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to...

Quotes by Lance Gross

I like to read. I go to movies quite a bit. I often go to see friends in theater productions. I hike, stretch and work out. I like to sing. I love going back to acting class and working on...

Quotes by Juliet Landau

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.

Quotes by Josh Brolin

College Quotes

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

Quotes by John Mahoney

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

Quotes by John Corbett

I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an...

Quotes by Jemima Kirke

I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I had just turned nineteen. I took an acting class at Playhouse West and decided, 'Wow, I...

Quotes by Jamie Anne Allman

As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.

Quotes by Jake McLaughlin

Doing Quotes

I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's...

Quotes by Hannah Ware

Frequently Asked Questions

Why did people take acting class according to these quotes?
Reasons vary from a friend's casual suggestion during college track practice to a deliberate attempt to overcome severe shyness.
Does any quote link acting class to a career path?
One advises devoting more time to college coursework and acting lessons than to the gym if the good roles are the actual goal.
Is stage fright a theme in this topic?
Yes, one voice describes signing up specifically to conquer intense nervousness after finishing a graphic design degree.
Where does real learning happen, according to this topic?
One quote argues that classroom time alone never fully teaches the craft until a person actually performs live or on set.
How casual was the decision to try acting class for some?
For one voice it started almost by accident, taking the class at a friend's suggestion and comparing it at first to something as relaxed as recess.

One voice insists real learning only starts once you leave the classroom and step onto an actual stage or camera. Pair this with our Acting or Best quotes for more on performance.