Richard Briers Quotes

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

Singing and composing come naturally to me, but acting does not. I have worked at it and attended several workshops to learn the craft.

You have to have a lot of skills when you act; you might not have it when you start, but you definitely end up with a few skills along the way.

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

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.

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

I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.

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 learned how to act working in TV.

I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

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

I was never in an acting school. But I learned everything on the job like memorising lines, all the technicalities of theatre, how to use your voice and eyes and more.

In the beginning, it was quite challenging because I had zero acting experience, and delivering dialogues was the most difficult thing for me to do. But after I began to act, I grew as an artiste.

I think that acting could be a talent.

You can't learn acting through any classes.

I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.

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

I've learned almost everything I know about acting from my dad.