
My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
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The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.
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Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.
Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.
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We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.
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In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.
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I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.
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Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.
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Perhaps being a character actor on radio was, in retrospect, the best training I could get.
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I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
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When you become an actor, you find out things about yourself that you can bring to a character that no one else could. That's the way to get cast. Instead of doing things perfectly, you have to be real. That was something I had to let go of when I started acting, the idea of being perfect.
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