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Acting Classes Quotes

How acting classes turned interest into a real career.

These acting classes quotes trace the moment performers moved from watching movies to actively pursuing the craft themselves, often starting in their early teens. See our Acting quotes for more.

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

Quotes by Adepero Oduye

I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do.

Quotes by Torrey DeVitto

It took many years of acting classes to get even remotely comfortable, but that's OK. It helped me so much on a personal level, not to mention professionally.

Quotes by Tamara Taylor

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

Quotes by Shailene Woodley

Acting Quotes

I was born in North Carolina but moved to a suburb just outside of Philadelphia when I was 5, so mostly grew up there. I decided I wanted to become an actor when I was 8 years old. I literally...

Quotes by Sarah Steele

There's a competitive grief atmosphere in acting classes. Like, whoever has the biggest trauma is sort of like the winner of the day today or gets the A+. That, I could identify with from when I sort of dabbled with...

Quotes by Sarah Goldberg

I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.

Quotes by Sam Claflin

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...

Quotes by Robert De Niro

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

Quotes by Rila Fukushima

Always Quotes

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told...

Quotes by Olga Kurylenko

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

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

Quotes by Mary-Kate Olsen

When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these...

Quotes by Mark Harmon

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

Quotes by Margaret Qualley

Doing Quotes

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

Quotes by Lindsay Wagner

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...

Quotes by Larry David

I’ve been doing some Shakespeare acting classes - and I really enjoyed it. I never thought that would be something I would say, but I am.

Quotes by Kevin Clifton

I started taking acting classes when I was 14. That's when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I watched movies, always, but I didn't think it was a real job. I watched Turner Classic Movies with...

Quotes by Julia Garner

I moved to California in 2011 to be a writer. A family friend told me to take acting classes so I could do commercials and actually make a little money.

Quotes by Jovan Adepo

Great Quotes

I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes...

Quotes by Jonah Hill

Frequently Asked Questions

At what age did people typically start acting classes here?
The sample quotes mention starting points around age 14 or 15, often after first trying other interests like music.
Was acting always seen as a serious career path at first?
No, one quote admits not initially treating acting as a real job, even while watching classic films regularly.
Do these quotes describe early discomfort in class?
Yes, one describes years of classes before feeling even remotely comfortable, while still finding the process personally valuable.
Is travel or living abroad connected to this topic?
One quote mentions the value of living outside one's home country, tying broader life experience to personal and creative growth.
How does this topic relate to Acting quotes?
Training is the first step toward the craft covered in our Acting quotes, making the two topics natural companions.

Several voices here describe early discomfort giving way to real professional confidence after years of consistent classwork. Pair it with our Doing or Great quotes.