Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

As an actor, you keep learning. There's no end to it.

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

Every piece of work has been a learning experience.

It's not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to 'Merlin.' It was pretty much my first job, and I didn't know what I was doing for many years on it. It wasn't until the third and fourth series - the fourth series especially - that I really found my feet with the character, and as an actress.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

I just want to do shows because you get to see, over all the seasons, the person grow, and you get to grow with the character. That transformation, for me, is what I love about my job. I get to learn about myself and challenge myself and grow with the character. For me, it's a whole process of learning and growing.

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

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.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

That's what I've learned: you are always to improve whether you are a Hall of Fame quarterback or some rookie.

I look to gain experience wherever I play.

I started at Grand View and all the England stuff. I just wanted to learn and get better, and that's kind of what the experiences were.

One of the things I love about acting is that there is always scope for growth.

I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.

I think I integrated that over the first couple of years that I was out of school, mostly in auditions, to be honest.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.