Tisha Campbell-Martin Quotes

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have to try so hard as an actor; you don't have to do so much. Just let the material sit inside you and let it come out. Just say the words. That was the main thing that I learned from doing Aaron Sorkin's work - say the words, and everything else will happen.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

Honestly, soaps are great training. You're doing 90-plus pages a day. It was my acting class, where I built my foundation for showing up and being professional.

I'm a self-taught actor, which means that I had to learn everything on my own, as I wanted to know the craft deeper and deeper.

Eight years of steady acting training nonstop... three years in the profession. And I'm still in the apprentice mode and I'm still watching everybody and learning.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

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.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

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.