Dave Bautista Quotes

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'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

I've been to acting coaches and everything, but they had to open me up and all that, so now I'm getting better with it.

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.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

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 trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.

I feel responsible, as many other people's lives hang on the success of a drama in which I appear. But in essence, I think having various experiences and dialogues with different people helps me improve my acting more than taking lessons.

Ryerson helped me because I was around acting all the time. It was pretty much all I thought about, even if I didn't really get to practice every day; I definitely thought about it. Actually a lot of it was just sitting and watching, especially in my last year, but I think a good actor learns from everything.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

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

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

It's not a secret, but if you know what the hell you're doing, you pick good actors. And you know what makes a good actor? A good personality in the performer, in the person.

I was in a movie called 'Flirting With Disaster' with Ben Stiller. I realized that I am really not a good actor and not something I wanted to pursue.

When I first started acting, I knew that you have to learn different skills for different roles.