#trained

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#being #could #doing #epitome #find

My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom; she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#begged #brother #else #eventually #fun

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#decisions #formally #i #instinctual #never

I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#agents #already #also #angeles #basic

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ↗

— Bill Dana

#been #cats #days #difficult #had

Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#company #connected #creation #creativity #current

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#agents #deal #fame #i #lawyers

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#attention #cannot #days #east #east asia

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#dramas #i #into #parlor #shakespeare

I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do. ↗

— Shuler Hensley

#chose #classically #could #education #foundation