Adam Driver Quotes

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

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.

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

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

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.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

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

I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.

I learned how to act working in TV.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

Good acting is really excellent carpentry.

I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course 'cause I've always liked the performance side of anything.

I had always heard that theatre is for 'serious' actors but after actually having rehearsed day in and day out, I realize how challenging it is.

Any skill requires training. I took the corporate approach to acting and wanted to develop the necessary skills.

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.