“Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you arrive on the professional scene, the cream tends to rise, regardless of what school you attended.” LooksSchoolActorsSceneTrainingProgramPreparationCreamTraining Programs Author:Rachel Hoffman
“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsSaidCountrySchoolYoungSongActorsFoundVoiceCitiesAirSeaProgramFolksRadioGrandmotherIntroducingSailorCrackedFolk MusicGreat CountryYoung ActorsBanjosYour GrandmotherFolk Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“Being large and muscular, you are not taken very seriously as an actor. When bigger roles come up and the actor needs to be muscular they tend to cast a regular sized actor and get him to hit the weight program as opposed to hiring an actor who's already muscular and developed in that area.” NeedsActorsRolesTakenAreasProgramWeightBiggerCastsCome UpHiring Author:James Preston Rogers
“I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.” WayChildrenKidsActorsProgramHostChild Actors Author:Michiel Huisman
“I started acting when I was 13, but it really wasn't my plan. The actual decision to become an actor was when I was 17, after I didn't act for half a year because I came to an exchange student program in the US, and I realized how much I missed it.” YearsActorsDecisionActingHalfPlansStudentsProgramI RealizedHalf A Year Author:Meital Dohan
“I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.” ActorsTelevisionDirectorsProgramProducers Author:James Lipton
“I plan on having the credibility and integrity of being a part of an entertainment news program like 'E!,' in addition to being on the actor side as well.” WellsActorsSidesPlansIntegrityNewsProgramEntertainmentCredibility Author:Terrence J
“Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'” PeopleLooksWarActorsStarsHalfCompanyReturnSixProgramTwentiesTheaterCreditSecondsEnviousI Smile Author:Caroline Blakiston