Michael B. Jordan Quotes

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

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

I'd always wanted to try my hand at every bit of the acting field.

My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I've acted ever since.

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

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I think acting is a gift.

I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I didn't go to acting school.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

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

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

I haven't actually studied acting at all.

People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.