Aneurin Barnard Quotes

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.

There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.