Cameron Boyce Quotes

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

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

It helps me as an actor to always be on top of my stuff.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

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 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.

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

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.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

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.

If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

Maybe I'll go to acting school. Acting is like boxing, you know.

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

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.

I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line.