Rachel Shenton Quotes

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

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.

After being signed for 'Madras Cafe,' I joined Jogi Singh's acting classes, where I learned the basic nuances.

Naseer Sir taught me while I was a student at the Film and Television Institute of India. Anything I know about acting is thanks to him.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

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.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'

I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.

I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me. But this has worked for me: Never memorizing a scene.

I've been to acting coaches and everything, but they had to open me up and all that, so now I'm getting better with it.

It is important for an actor to play different roles.

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

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

You can't learn acting through any classes.

As a good actor, I think you need to know camera, dubbing etc.

I can honestly say whatever I know about acting, all of it, I learned at 'GH.'

An actor has to do everything, all genres of films.

I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.