Mark Pellegrino Quotes

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

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.

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

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

Actors are real. It's a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.

There is nothing like a 'born actor.' It's all about honing the skills.

I loved the idea that acting was something you could develop into slowly; something you could study.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

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.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.