Jason Clarke Quotes

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

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

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

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.

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

I don't have actor training myself.

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.

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.

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'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

You're not going to learn about acting on TV and in film. You'll learn more in plays and in class.

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

I learned how to act working in TV.