Ioan Gruffudd Quotes

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

Theater school is essentially like training. It's boot camp. It's like an academy to put you through all these different situations that sometimes are more extreme than what you'll come across in the field. But now you're emotionally prepared for it so that when it does happen, it's not a big surprise.

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.

All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'

I was lucky enough to get into drama school in London back in 2005, and I was there for three years, and in those three years, we did a lot of theater. A lot of classical training.

As an actor, you strive to show versatility.

Comedy prepared me for drama. There are a couple techniques you can think of. One of my acting teachers said that comedy is like ping-pong, and drama is tennis. You take things a bit slower, so you do get to breathe more and take some more time.

I learned how to act working in TV.

I've never been to acting classes or anything like that. Everything I do is quite instinctual.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

'Community' was a very important part of my growth as an actor. I see it as my acting school, not having a lot of formal acting training.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

As an actor, you create your own ideas.

My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'

I like talking about acting. I'm comfortable talking about acting.

I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get.

I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.

You learn to act by acting. You only get so much from acting class. You have to put your act on stage.

After being signed for 'Madras Cafe,' I joined Jogi Singh's acting classes, where I learned the basic nuances.