Erika Christensen Quotes

I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor - the day in and day out of it.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

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

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

I want to discover more things about acting.

There's so much to learn as an actor.

I don't know a single actor who is not picky.

I have learnt to become patient as an actor.

Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

You learn a great deal that you can feed into your craft which gives you the experience that you actually need later on, when you start to get the really great roles. You've played that part to a certain degree in that picture, and you played that one in that, and so on. You add it all up, and you have that experience.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

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.

There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

Working with a great actor is really educational.

Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.

I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.