Paul Dano Quotes

No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

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

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.

I want to stay learning and hopefully allow my craft to evolve.

I'm grateful to be in school developing my practice as an actor. In that process, it's difficult to say that you've definitively 'learned' something.

I look at sports entertainment/professional wrestling, whichever you want to call it, I look at it as never done. You're never done learning or getting better or listening, and never done honing your skill.

One of the things I love about acting is that there is always scope for growth.

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

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.

At Zappos, one of our core values is to Pursue Growth and Learning. In the lobby of our headquarters, we have a giving library where we give away books to employees and visitors that we think will help with their growth, both personally and professionally. I can't wait to add The Compound Effect to our library.

As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, "I know this character," and you don't do the work anymore. Then, there's something that you're going to miss. If you always stay hungry to learn more about your character, that's a healthy thing, while having a great sense of who she is, at the core.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

I know a lot of actors don't like to watch themselves and sometimes I don't, but generally I do because I like to just see if there's anything that I can change in the future or make better or anything like that.

The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not something that ever ends, because as you grow as a person, so does your capacity to play different characters. New things come up, new things you want to explore and new stories you want tell about life and your knowledge of things. I don't think there's ever going to be that satisfaction of "and now, comfort."

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.