Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have…

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

— Terence McKenna

It's advice I always give to directors when they're starting out: Take an acting class to really see what it feels like to be…

— Marielle Heller

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would…

— June Squibb

I worked as a cook before starting acting.

— Jason Mitchell

I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

— Christine Lahti

It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling…

— Ryan Newman

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put…

— JoJo

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career…

— Cillian Murphy

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I…

— Maria Menounos

I got into modeling first, then acting came along pretty soon, and I landed my first role in a Korean drama without education, without…

— Claudia Kim

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

— Jessica Brown Findlay

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 come from a background where I have no acting experience and when I did 'Shanti,' I got a lot of support from my…

— Mandira Bedi