Callan McAuliffe Quotes

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito!

I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.

I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how to play. I hope the same thing is true with acting.

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very inspired by it.

I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I just like to watch other actors in action. I learned so much from working with De Niro. I'd be in a scene with him where I was supposed to be acting, and I was just watching.

I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.

I grew as an actor just by watching Kamal Haasan acting. I had the good fortune of being able to observe Kamal Haasan from close quarters.

When I was growing up I would always watch the more experienced players to see what they were doing and why they were doing it.

I am constantly looking around asking for tips from my co-actors. I want to learn as much as I can and as fast as I can.

I love to be in the entertainment space, and my aim is to create new content and entertain people, whether it's in movies or on TV.

As for Aamir Khan, he keeps raising the standard with every film. For an artist like me or a newcomer like me, we can only look up to that and dream, 'When will that be us someday?' There's so much to learn from him. He is the encyclopedia of acting.

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.