Kevin Dillon Quotes

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

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

I've been doing theatre for years, but film acting has broadened my horizon.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

I'm just a character actor.

I learned how to act working in TV.

My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.

I think L.A. actors don't have much continuity, so you kind of have to force the issue by doing plays and putting up scenes and staying in class.

I want to do more films because if you do a lot of films, you become a better actor.

I have to evolve as an actor.

Theatre contributes in the growth of an actor and lets one know the real worth of acting.

Any skill requires training. I took the corporate approach to acting and wanted to develop the necessary skills.