Rutina Wesley Quotes

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

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.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

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.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

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.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

I consider myself an actor that tries to have as many tools as possible in the bag. And I think that includes the method, then of course it includes some improv techniques, and includes all kinds of different things, because you never know when you're going to have to work on something and in what way.

I learned how to act working in TV.

I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting.

It's not just about looking shocked if the scene demands it. It's about feeling that emotion. You can't lie to the camera, because it captures everything. This is what I have learnt over the years.

I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.

As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.

The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

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

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.