Lonny Price Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

As an actor, it is my job to prepare for the role I am playing.

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

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.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

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

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

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

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

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

I don't think film actors need training, really.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

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.

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

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 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.

As an actor, you tend to draw on your human instincts and your background, what you've gone through as an individual.