I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.
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My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.
The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhibit you as an actor and tell you, 'You only have to study acting. This is it for the rest of your life.' They're really great at balancing other things; you get to study two days a week anything you want unrelated to acting.
Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.
I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.
I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.
I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies.
When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.
I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
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