Akhil Akkineni Quotes

My modus operandi is to become a better actor.

Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

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

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance. I'm still a work in progress.

I don't know if I've become a better actor or a more sensitive one. But I've learnt what not to do.

I think it's important as an actor to stay really ignorant.

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

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.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

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

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

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.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

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

The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

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 definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.