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“I think that I originally became an actor because I was super, super dramatic. Over the top, all the time. I was the kid that would bump my knee and scream and cry as if I'd been shot in the face. So just automatically, the only outlet for my drama was acting and I loved theater.”

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Author:Alanna Masterson

“Some people have this really clear memory of making that decision, and I don't. My earliest memories of being involved with drama or acting were in elementary school. My sister and I got dropped off at an after-school improvisation class, a time-killer for kids while parents were doing the groceries. I'm 6 years old, and I remember running amok and playing these games.”

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Author:Jai Courtney

“When I first started getting into acting, I was doing improv in acting class, and I had done a serious monologue and everyone was cracking up laughing and I went to the drama teacher and said I don't want to be the class clown anymore, I want to do serious work, too, and they loved that, and so I started mixing in drama.”

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Author:Miles Teller

“The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty girls in the show. I realized; I found out very early on, that the lead comic gets the girl. So, that was cool. When I went to university, I studied Economic Social History. And drama. That kind of got me into it. My main passion was to make films. It was never to be an actor. At that time, there weren't many opportunities for a working class Scottish actor. It was kind of an English thing. And it required a certain mannered cerebral acting style that I couldn't relate to.”

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Author:Peter Mullan

“I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, "I'm so sorry this happened to you. I didn't realize the people who were running the acting department at the drama school hated actors." They did. And they were fired when I graduated.”

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Author:Sigourney Weaver

“From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.”

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Author:Emma Stone

“Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.”

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Author:Michael Shurtleff

“I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.”

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Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.”

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Author:Michael Shurtleff

“You are the spokesman for your character, you put on his case. Are you going to win or lose? There'll be no drama if you look like a loser at the outset.”

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Author:Clive Swift

“I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“Acting is easier and smoother than singing - it's less drama.”

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Author:Beyonce Knowles

“My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.”

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Author:Amy Weber

“Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.”

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Author:Phil Lesh

“Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.”

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Author:Emilia Clarke

“When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.”

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Author:Matt LeBlanc

“How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.”

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Author:Joan Chen

“I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.”

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Author:Casey Wilson

“Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.”

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Author:Patrick Dempsey

“I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.”

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Author:Na Hae Ryeong

“Every morning I look in the mirror and make a promise to myself. To stop acting like this today. That Mi Soo is a good friend. That John only loves me. But it doesn't work that well. I feel like I'm going crazy if John even smiles at Mi Soo. Even when they sit across from one another! I really feel like I'm going to die.”

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Author:Na Hae Ryeong

“I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.”

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.”

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Author:Paul Greengrass

“As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.”

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Author:Megan Gallagher

“When I stand on stage, I get nervous, and because unexpected situations can occur, we need even more preparation. I must have confidence on top of that as well. The reason why I chose drama/theatre as my major is to act after learning all the theory first. You only live once, and I can only live as myself. I think I could learn a lot of things if I can live as others through acting.”

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Author:Seohyun

“When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.”

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Author:Emily Watson

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