Conan Stevens Quotes

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

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.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

Every director should take an acting class.

That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

As an actor, you create your own ideas.

It is important for an actor to play different roles.

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

I haven't studied acting formally, so my 'university' was watching a lot cinema.

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

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

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, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

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

I didn't study acting.