Quvenzhane Wallis Quotes

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

My first acting lessons were Shakespeare. The first time I ever started working with a coach was doing scenes from 'Measure for Measure,' which were tough dramatic scenes. And then 'Taming of the Shrew,' which required comedic timing. And that's the kind of stuff I love.

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

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 would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I've always approached acting from a very workmanlike perspective.

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.

Ryerson helped me because I was around acting all the time. It was pretty much all I thought about, even if I didn't really get to practice every day; I definitely thought about it. Actually a lot of it was just sitting and watching, especially in my last year, but I think a good actor learns from everything.

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

I had never really acted before, so I really didn't know what I was doing. The casting director for 'Euphoria' set me up with an acting coach in New York, and he completely flipped my world around. The way you learn to utilize your brain and your emotions really freaked me out.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

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

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

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