Kate Burton Quotes

When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.

Every actor evolves over a period of time.

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.

I did two episodes of 'The Walking Dead,' and it was enough to have time to get in there and really get the meat of it, but also then move on and take that experience and bring it into the next one. It was a great stepping stone.

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

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.

I do think you are mainly thrown into one medium as an actor, and then hopefully you grow from there.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

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.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.