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.
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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.
I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.
I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great acting program. I graduated in '95.
Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.
I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.
Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.
I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.
Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I wanted to pursue acting after college.