Raashi Khanna Quotes

I don't think film actors need training, really.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

You can't learn acting through any classes.

I can honestly say whatever I know about acting, all of it, I learned at 'GH.'

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I could probably do a documentary on acting classes; I've taken so many.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

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.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

As a good actor, I think you need to know camera, dubbing etc.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.