Sam Riley Quotes

I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.

I can't say I'm confident in my abilities as an actor.

When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn't know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

I love acting classes. I think they're great. It's like working out in the gym. It's a great place to figure out everything that's working and what isn't working.

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

I have learnt to become patient as an actor.

An actor has to do everything, all genres of films.

I lack confidence as an actor.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better.

To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder.

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

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.