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“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.”

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Author:Joe Manganiello

“I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.”

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Author:Kevin Spacey

“I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.”

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Author:Zach Gilford

“I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.”

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Author:Steve Buscemi

“As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.”

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Author:Andrew Rannells

“My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my good friends at the Hachette Book Group have encouraged me to share the next phase of my life, beginning with my arrival in Hollywood and the wonderful movies and television programs I was asked to be a part of.”

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Author:Julie Andrews

“For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.”

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Author:Ray Stevenson

“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.”

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Author:Eleanor Tomlinson

“Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.”

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Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“A lot of the best acting training I had was in junior high and high school. We had very demanding directors and did real plays. You put our plays up against any theater troupe of any age, and they usually did pretty damn well.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.”

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Author:Jack Lemmon

“I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college, at the University of Washington. I was a theater major there and got my training. Then after college, I packed up my Honda Civic and kind of fulfilled the cliché of driving down to Los Angeles, and literally, brick by brick - you know, the slow and painful way - I built my career.”

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Author:Mariana Klaveno

“I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.”

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Author:Julia Stiles

“A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.”

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Book:Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside

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“There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.”

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Author:Wesley Snipes

“The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.”

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Author:Ben Vereen

“Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth. Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political and cultural idea.”

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