Melissa George Quotes

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after a while I found myself wanting to inhabit other people's worlds and lives.

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

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

I have been a good theatre artiste since my school and college days, but when I participated in 'Cine Stars Ki Khoj,' I realised that I could touch people's hearts when I performed.

I never thought I could be an actor, as I was always a studious geek and was always interested in mathematics.

At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.

All that acting and all that stuff and emoting and crap will come after you know what you're doing. So when you get - when I get on stage, I don't have to think about it.

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.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.