Acting Quote by Claire Danes

I did some acting in high school and then a little more in college, and it just was the thing that I felt that…

— Tony Shalhoub

When I started out, I had no idea what I was doing. I was 16, and acting was a new, exciting thing. So, I…

— Krystle D'Souza

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

— Boris Kodjoe

In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I…

— Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and I felt…

— Karen Fukuhara

I was doing chemistry in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. It was the first time I'd lived alone, and I had an epiphany…

— Retta

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.

— James Caan

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it…

— Campbell Scott

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I…

— Aaron Tveit

I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.

— Carol Burnett

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself,…

— Derek Luke

Yale was my first audition. I say this to say I was a baby. I knew nothing of acting.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph