John Cena Quotes

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural performances.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

I mean, acting is so easy! I love it and I'm good at it.

I believe an actor should be shameless.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I go to an acting class every Sunday.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.