Taylor Sheridan Quotes

There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It's the best training I had in terms of discipline.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

I like to do a lot of different things in acting.

I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding out good information on a character, I will stop when I'm set to stop.

I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

As an actor I have no hang-ups whatsoever about cinema. It can be mainstream, art, regional or national.

I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.

As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.

I have this habit of not rehearsing a lot; I don't go on practicing my dialogues, pauses, and actions.

In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit together, and it's weighty and serious.

The two things an actor dreads most are children and dogs.

One of the most difficult things I find as an actor is to laugh on cue. It is way harder than crying or other emotions. It's sometimes harder than yawning on cue.

When you are an actor you are a very small part of a very large scheme of things.

As an actor, I just want to perform.

I am a hungry actor, and I want to do good films.

When preparing for auditions, I have no rituals. I just try to be as prepared as possible.

But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going to be doing. Your life has a physical pattern. There's something about the odd, repetitious nature of it that I find hugely relaxing. All the problems of life are taken care of for that bit of time.

Soap operas are like acting boot camps.

I have learnt to become patient as an actor.

Comedy is one genre that I really want to come my way because I was loved for my funny character in 'Khiladi 786.' So, if approached with a good script and good songs, I will certainly take it up.

My grades started dropping, and when I sleep all day and come to the gym I'd have a slow day. I needed rules, I guess, in boxing and to just help me, period.

I think that because television is shot on a really fast schedule, and it gets piped into your home on a smaller screen, it's much more about character and dialogue in a lot of cases than the movies are.

Rob Doherty has been a real superstar for us on 'The Mentalist' for years.

I like to be organized, I like to stick to my schedule. That's how I stay focused.