Chris Lowell Quotes

I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

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

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the actors. I tried to make my own school.

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.

Regardless of what level the actor's at, you always learn something. And you can learn something from bad actors as well, who I've also worked with in the past.

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

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

I am not a trained actor. My real learning began on the sets.

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

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.

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

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

I learned how to act working in TV.

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.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.