Michael Ironside Quotes

I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

I'm taking my time with the acting and learning as I go.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

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

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.

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

I'm an actor. I love to create.

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

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

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.

I learned how to act working in TV.

I love acting classes. I think they're great. It's like working out in the gym. It's a great place to figure out everything that's working and what isn't working.

I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor - the day in and day out of it.

I have to evolve as an actor.

I'm grateful to be in school developing my practice as an actor. In that process, it's difficult to say that you've definitively 'learned' something.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

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

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.