Taylor Sheridan Quotes

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping, but ultimately you have to look at your script and turn up on the day. It's embedded in there somewhere but you have to forget it all and play the scene because we are storytelling.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill of holding pages in my hand and acting with pages in my hand. I find that every time I have to look at the page it takes me completely out of the scene.

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

I like to have something to base a role on.

I don't worry too much about learning lines per se. The memorization is the easy part for me, usually. For me, it's more about working on the context, back story, intention, motivation, etc. Once that's in place, the lines come pretty naturally.

It's part of the actor's job to show up with a head full of steam, to have their own take on this. So that way, you're not relying on, 'OK, tell me how to do it.'

Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines.