Nick Nolte Quotes

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.

Acting is kind of brutal.

There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

I think that 'Degrassi' really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years, and it was one of my first jobs. I can't even watch the early episodes - they're so embarrassing! But I really do think I grew as an actor and learned a lot over the seven years.

'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

'Girls' was my first audition. I'd just taken an audition class, and I was excited to implement those tools.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.

My modus operandi is to become a better actor.

You have to have a lot of skills when you act; you might not have it when you start, but you definitely end up with a few skills along the way.

I want to take on more diverse roles, and I keep building, and I hope to one day write or direct something. But I just want to keep developing as a person, and that will hopefully take my acting to the next level.

It helps me as an actor to always be on top of my stuff.

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book on acting.