Paul Henreid Quotes

It was a treat to work with Sarmad Sehbai. I wish actors had more teachers like him.

I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

I left my career in Hollywood, moved back to New York, and went to Lee Strasberg and studied with him for the rest of his life.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

I'll say that, Bill Camp, from 'The Night Of,' is one of our great actors.

Ryerson helped me because I was around acting all the time. It was pretty much all I thought about, even if I didn't really get to practice every day; I definitely thought about it. Actually a lot of it was just sitting and watching, especially in my last year, but I think a good actor learns from everything.

I grew as an actor just by watching Kamal Haasan acting. I had the good fortune of being able to observe Kamal Haasan from close quarters.

I am not that big a method actor.

I think Nat's an amazing actor... He understands things about acting that most people don't.

I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.

I have never been to an acting school, and on the sets of 'Karwaan,' Irrfan was my acting school. By observing him, I learnt to improvise in the scenes along with focusing on the smallest of the details.

For me, Domhnall is an acting teacher as much as anything. If I turn out to be half the actor he is, I'll be happy.

As an actor, I love to play a good crying scene.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.