Aaliyah Quotes

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.

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.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

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

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

My first acting lessons were Shakespeare. The first time I ever started working with a coach was doing scenes from 'Measure for Measure,' which were tough dramatic scenes. And then 'Taming of the Shrew,' which required comedic timing. And that's the kind of stuff I love.

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

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

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

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

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 think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

I have an acting coach, a dialect coach, and just a great team around me.

I learned how to act working in TV.

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.

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

I had never really acted before, so I really didn't know what I was doing. The casting director for 'Euphoria' set me up with an acting coach in New York, and he completely flipped my world around. The way you learn to utilize your brain and your emotions really freaked me out.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'