Steve Antin Quotes

Knowing who I am as a player and working on my deficiencies, communication is something I try to pride myself on.

For whatever reason, I've always been interested in those types of things - leadership books and different ways to connect with people in a real, authentic, genuine type of way.

When I found myself in that situation - that actors are like children, I tried to be successful. And when it worked and I figured out how to communicate that things were good - or at least okay - then I felt pleased.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

It takes only one person to have a successful relationship.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.

I just want to meet as many people as I can and talk with as many people as I can, but whatever allows me to do that then that's my main goal. It's just to understand as much as I can about life and how it happens.

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong.

I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.

I want to be better at staying connected.

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.