Mitch Hewer Quotes

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 learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

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

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

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

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

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

As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them.

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

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

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

I could probably do a documentary on acting classes; I've taken so many.

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've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

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

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.