Thomas Brodie-Sangster Quotes

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

I never went to drama school. It's a brilliant thing for the right type of person, but I threw myself in the deep end.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

Acting is in your soul.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

It's nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that 'SNL' is what my skill set is best designed for.

I learned acting while doing my shows. I never joined any course or anything. I just jumped into acting. I learn from experience.

Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.