“I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.” SchoolStuffGoes OnDramaTrainingInternalsMakeupChicagoCakeWardrobeIcingGoodmanIcing On The Cake Author:Michael Rooker
“I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.” I CanRunningSchoolActorsNaturalActingDramaTrainingInstinctRealisedSwansNatural Instinct Author:Katie Leung
“Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.” NeedsFeelsWellsI CanSchoolCan DoActingSituationHonorDramaTrainingFeel GoodGraduatesI Can Do ItGraduate SchoolI Feel Good Author:Andrea Anders
“My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant stage manager and they told me to clear out the prop store. I opened it up and no-one had been in there for 25 years and it was inches deep in rat sh*t. So before I could get anywhere I had to clear it up. I thought, 'All these years of training, the best drama school in the world, and this is what I'm doing.'” WorldYearsFirstsSchoolJobsCompanyClearStageDramaTrainingStoresTheatreManagersInchesRatsAssistantsPropsStage Managers Author:Martin Shaw
“There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.” IfsThinkingWayStillsDifferentMightWantedSchoolActorsTypeDramaLuckyTrainingEnglandTheaterHype Author:Eleanor Tomlinson
“McLeod's Daughters was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera. I learned a lot of technical aspects that you take for granted once you know them, but you have to learn them somewhere, along the way. It was a bit of a training ground for me, working in front of the camera and also dealing with media.” KnowsWayFirstsSchoolJobsBitsTermRolesMediaFrontsDramaTrainingDaughterAspectCamerasGranted Author:Dustin Clare
“I don't like comfort zones. Having never had any drama training, I don't really have a technique, so I'm continually learning new things. I like being frightened, and always having to start from scratch.” ComfortDramaTrainingTechniqueZoneFrightenedNew ThingsComfort ZoneScratchesLearning NewLearning New ThingsContinually Learning Author:Lea Seydoux
“I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares!” ThinkingArtStillsKidsSchoolGivenBlackLandDramaTrainingVisualsDancerNightmareThis DayArt SchoolVisual ArtTightsWearing Black Author:Jake Epstein
“Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.” NeedsPlaySchoolNeededDramaTrainingBreathsYeahExpensive Author:Meryl Streep
“With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.” KindFeelingsAbleLostDramaMindfulnessTrainingAccompany Author:Tara Brach
“I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.” ThinkingSchoolMaterialsPeriodsDramaTrainingHistoricalPlaywrightBrecht Author:Orlando Bloom
“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.'” ThinkingWayShouldDifferentSchoolActingFansTheoryDramaTrainingUnderstood Author:Ian Mckellen
“What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.” PeopleWantTryingDifferentHardSchoolAmericaYoungStudyHard WorkDramaTrainingEuropeEnglandTechniqueAccents Author:Joan Collins
“How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form.” MenShouldArtDifferentFactsFormCuttingMinutesDramaPaperTrainingRemainsSellsDancingInstinctMeaningfulConsumersDramaticGentlemanGoodsControlledTwelveFifteenToiletsRabbitsInterruptedProceedingToilet Paper Author:Rod Serling