Mark Strickson Quotes

Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn.

I think that acting could be a talent.

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.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

Actors are real. It's a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I think acting is something that came natural.

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I really consider acting a high art.

I have always been dramatic, so I think being an actress comes naturally to me. I think I am pretty good at it.

The thing that I didn't take into consideration is that acting, like wrestling, is a skill.

It requires a huge amount of intelligence to be an actor.

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

When I was a kid, I thought good acting was fascinating, and I could tell the difference. I could see that at like 9 years old.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.