Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

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 want to keep bettering myself as an actor and singer.

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

Theater school is essentially like training. It's boot camp. It's like an academy to put you through all these different situations that sometimes are more extreme than what you'll come across in the field. But now you're emotionally prepared for it so that when it does happen, it's not a big surprise.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

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

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

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.

There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

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