Callan McAuliffe Quotes

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

I'm going to become a real professional actress.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out.

I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.

I'm not going back to acting class, although I've thought of it. The classic training that people get usually when they start out, I never had, and I always felt and still feel the lack of it, so there's a lot of basic stuff that I just don't have a clue about.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.

I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

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