Paul Feig Quotes

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

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.

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

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

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

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.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

Being an actor is a lot more involved than many people realize; there are hundreds of ways to play any character. Even for a stylized bad guy, there are 4 or 5 different personalities I can play off the top of my head without thinking - better and more experienced actors can do dozens or hundreds.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

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.

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

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.

Whenever I have to work on my skills or add to my craft, I do theatre. It's one place where I can learn a lot as an actor.

As a good actor, I think you need to know camera, dubbing etc.

As an actor, you need to use everything at your disposal.

I go to an acting class every Sunday.

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

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.