“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.” SchoolTeacherDramaHigh SchoolTheater Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.” WorldMindHandsKidsYoungArtistTeacherCollegeTrainingTheaterIncrediblesBrilliantBunchAround The WorldYoung Minds Author:Joe Manganiello
“I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with her when I was starting out in my career. How to place my voice from a very relaxed position was all wonderfully reminiscent of going back to the basics. But I always like to do that with any role that I do, to dismantle it and put it all back together again.” SchoolTogetherVoiceCareersRolesTeacherPositionDramaTheaterExtraordinaryStartingRelaxedBack TogetherBasicsStarting OutTogether AgainBack Together Again Author:Ben Kingsley
“The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.” ActorsAudienceTeacherDirectorsDegreesUltimateTheater Author:Joan Fontaine
“In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids in classes and the teachers would make it a point that I was the entertainer of the class, but only after high school and in college that I started doing theater and acting classes, because I thought it would be fun.” ShowsWould BeKidsSchoolUsedFunActingClassTeacherChildhoodCollegeHigh SchoolTheaterPerformersEntertainersPuppetsEarly ChildhoodActing ClassesAfter High SchoolPuppet Shows Author:Michael Jai White
“When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.” IfsTryingLittlesMadeCharacterUseRememberUsedOrderBitsMemoriesTeacherCryTearsSceneCreatingLittle BitTheaterRemember Something Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me; it put the zap on my brain in a big way.” ThinkingMenWayShowsBigsActingBrainSawsTeacherGroupsTheaterOne Man Author:Edward Norton
“I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert.” KnowsWritingChildrenRealWantedSchoolFilmGrowing UpTeacherGrowingWonderfulMagicDramaTheaterScriptsExpertsMagicianWonderful FriendsHoudini Author:Kristen Connolly
“The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was, and what all these things meant, which was something I had no concept of. She sent me off to drama school, at age 18, and I stayed there for three years. Before I knew it, I was working on a TV show.” YearsWellsShowsAgeSchoolThreeLeftTeacherStageTaughtTvsDramaDirectorsConceptsTheaterThree YearsTv ShowsHeadmistress Author:Robert Kazinsky
“I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.” PeopleWorldChildrenArtHelpingArtistOpportunityGrowsCommunityLeaderGrowing UpTeacherComputerMusicianSittingTheaterExposedTake TimeSchedulesComputer ScienceGymnasiumsCommunity Centers Author:Erykah Badu
“I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.” YearsStuffVoiceStudyTeacherTheaterTechniqueCoaches Author:Jessica Lange
“I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.” TryingYearsCommunityActingClassTeacherTheaterMovedDrivingTaxiVancouverBarely Getting By Author:Cory Monteith
“I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.” I CanPlayAgeCommunityTeacherTalentDecidedTheaterMotivatedJewish Community Author:Richard Dreyfuss
“I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.” YearsTeacherFourNew YorkCollegeTheaterFour YearsNyc Author:Aida Turturro