Titus Welliver Quotes

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.

I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

I like a lot of things about yoga - its an intro to good music; with each good teacher you study with, you learn a lot about them personally; it's not just about specific technique or poses. I also like Shavasana - not too many exercise routines let you nap at the end of them. You don't see nap pods in CrossFit gyms.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for parts. I just go for it, and I usually pull through.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even dangerous to go to school. You need to do whatever you want, as you want.

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.