Patrick J. Adams Quotes

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved.

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.

In Jaipur, I did almost everything from regional theatre to Shakespeare's plays. But when I shifted to Mumbai, I joined Anupam Kher's academy, Actor Prepares, to hone my acting skills.

I will become a more mature actor and it's one of my dreams to teach acting as well.

I'm the type of actor that, if I'm not filming something, I'm in class.

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.

Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.

I've been acting a long time. I've been a member of SAG since 1982.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.