Bill Nunn Quotes

As an actor, you keep learning. There's no end to it.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

Eight years of steady acting training nonstop... three years in the profession. And I'm still in the apprentice mode and I'm still watching everybody and learning.

I think every role you do prepares you for the next one. Of course, 'Nashville' has been, and will continue to be, a huge learning experience for me as an actor. It's something that I grew a lot doing.

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

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

Regardless of what level the actor's at, you always learn something. And you can learn something from bad actors as well, who I've also worked with in the past.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

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.

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

I'm grateful to be in school developing my practice as an actor. In that process, it's difficult to say that you've definitively 'learned' something.

Now, being a model and an actor, I'm trying to learn more as my profession demands it.

One of the things I love about acting is that there is always scope for growth.

You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.

After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

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!