Emily Berrington Quotes

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

My modus operandi is to become a better actor.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

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.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

Sandy Meisner would say it takes 20 years to make an actor. Some people it takes five, some people 30. And you have to have patience and forgiveness for yourself. It's hard when you see people at your age or younger becoming successful.

When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.

You never know the depth of an actor.

I've been to acting coaches and everything, but they had to open me up and all that, so now I'm getting better with it.

I believe that you become a better actor only when you work with people far better than you are.

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

I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.