Gautam Rode Quotes

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

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 had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do.

From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.

The skill set that I think we have as actors is so cool because they train you in ways that you never thought you'd be trained. And that's skills that they can't take back. So as you go further in your career, you can dump all these skills into things.

No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

I am always interested in good performance, always tried to improve my skill as an actor.

I'm grateful to be in school developing my practice as an actor. In that process, it's difficult to say that you've definitively 'learned' something.

I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

I'm taking my time with the acting and learning as I go.

When I first started acting, I knew that you have to learn different skills for different roles.

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.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.

My ambition is to get better as an actor.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

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