Acting Quote by Joely Fisher

Well, I went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy - I went to the conservatory - for acting.

— Christopher Jackson

My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I was seven.

— KiKi Layne

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going…

— Charlie Kaufman

I worked in the theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for years and moved to New York and then to Los Angeles.

— Tony Shalhoub

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

— Donnie Wahlberg

In high school I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher…

— Forest Whitaker

I graduated high school a year early and moved to New York when I was 17 to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

— Mike Faist

I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a…

— Timothy Simons

I grew up doing theater. I came to New York and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner. I was this serious young…

— Amanda Bearse

At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.

— David Morse

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My…

— Robert De Niro

I was a musical theater kid in high school.

— Rian Johnson