Charlotte Rampling Quotes

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

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

I love acting classes. I think they're great. It's like working out in the gym. It's a great place to figure out everything that's working and what isn't working.

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

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

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.

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

As an actor, you strive to show versatility.

I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

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.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

Working with a great actor is really educational.

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

I was not a trained actor.

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

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

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 think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

I want to discover more things about acting.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.