Gary Shteyngart Quotes

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.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

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

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

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 didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

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.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

Actors are investigators.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

I never attended any acting school, though I've done theatre workshops a couple of times, and it has been an extremely enriching experience. But beyond that, I don't want to acquire the skills of acting and use them on camera. I'd rather learn on the job.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

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

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.