Honeysuckle Weeks Quotes

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

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.

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.

I learned how to act working in TV.

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.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

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.

To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

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.

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 was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

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.

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

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.