Dominic Monaghan Quotes

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

I never went to drama school.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

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

I learned how to act working in TV.

I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

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

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.