Gail Honeyman Quotes

I'm not a good actor.

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

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

I'm not a very good actor.

Let's face it: I was never a very good actress.

When you cast somebody, you write to their strengths.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

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.

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.

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.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

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'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

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.

I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

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