Dylan Bruce Quotes

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

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.

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.

What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

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.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

I think acting is boring because you have to sit for a long time. And being a director I am used to running around and being busy on sets. I lack the actor software.

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

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.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

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

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.