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I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting. — Robbie Jones

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young. — Dan Byrd

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school. — Kevin Richardson

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you. — Michael Imperioli

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school. — Celia Imrie

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school. — Jillian Bach

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting. — Maggie Smith

I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college. — Dane DeHaan

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school. — Mary-Kate Olsen

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature. — Robert Pattinson

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19. — Dustin Clare

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons. — Luke Evans

I didn't go to acting school. — Justin Chatwin

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting. — Ethan Embry

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore. — Sierra McCormick

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.' — Miles Teller

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far. — John Ratzenberger

After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive! — Megan Lee

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school. — Nick Frost

I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can. — Georgie Henley

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school. — Amy Ryan

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do? — Julia Garner

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it. — Rachel Dratch

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself. — Adam Driver

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult. — Emily Osment

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared. — Ursula Andress

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but ... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians. — Martha Wainwright

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it. — Natasha Lyonne

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do. — Antonia Bird

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.' — Seth Numrich

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite. — Rufus Sewell

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

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school. — Dylan O'Brien

I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! — Gwendoline Christie

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. — Wentworth Miller

Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living. — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school. — Paul Schneider

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school. — Jeremy Davies

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things. — Barbra Streisand

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. — David Mamet

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares. — Anupam Kher

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. — Joan Collins

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting. — Harrison Ford

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it. — Loni Anderson

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. — Steve Buscemi

I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living. — Michelle Gomez

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. — Beth Henley

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. — Sara Paxton

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good. — Jason Mitchell

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays. — Casey Wilson

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. — Eric Bogosian

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students. — Luke Ford

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school. — Josie Loren

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor. — Dana Spiotta

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

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. — Tommy Wiseau

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school. — Tony Curtis

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting. — Kaitlyn Dever

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays. — Mayim Bialik

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films. — Art Alexakis

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience. — Zoe Kravitz

I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest. — Jesse Williams

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. — Aidan Turner

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.' — Mickey Rourke

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular. — Adam McKay

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. — Michelle Dockery

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is. — Wilford Brimley

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess. — Queen Latifah

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel. — Alison Lohman

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together. — Ajay Naidu

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy. — Jim Sturgess

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch. — Brandon Jay McLaren

Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed. — Donald Freed

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do. — Jesse Eisenberg

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer. — Zooey Deschanel

I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it. — Theo James

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird. — Joe Pantoliano

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing. — Stella Maeve

Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school. — Helena Mattsson

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school. — Megan Gallagher

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler. — Judd Nelson

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. — Rainn Wilson

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays. — Blythe Danner

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school. — Paul Dano

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. — Dennis Farina

When I was doing 'Neighbours,' I was aiming to go to university, then go to med school, but I realised I could make a better living from acting. — Jesse Spencer

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood. — Sherman Hemsley

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons. — Anna Chlumsky

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school. — Jodie Sweetin

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school. — Pawel Szajda

I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow. — Kara Hayward

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes. — Alice Englert

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting. — Edward Burns

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school. — Charles S. Dutton

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession. — Rashida Jones

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!" — Mickey Rooney

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it. — Patrick Macnee

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again. — Ewan McGregor

Sometimes when I'm not working, I go and teach at an acting school, and quite selfishly, that makes me feel more inspired to do things myself. — Chris Geere

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