Benjamin Walker Quotes

I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how to play. I hope the same thing is true with acting.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on 'Ride Along,' you learn so much. He's a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn't do. I do nothing but soak up information.

On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don't know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.

I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.

I've been lucky enough to, for the most part, surround myself with a lot of people who are more talented than me and who I can learn from, and it makes me up my game.

I've gotten to meet so many talented people!

I am constantly looking around asking for tips from my co-actors. I want to learn as much as I can and as fast as I can.

When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.

As an actress and just as a person, I've kind of been in a little bit of a bubble. So it was so great for me to see where I could go as an actress and to be around incredible people who are much more experienced than I am, like Harmony [Korine], James [Franco], and Vanessa [Hudgens].

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

I was lucky to have been there with some great people. I think I learned the most from the people around me. Just when you get talented people there, like the people who you talk to. And it spurs you on.

It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.

Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.