Richard Cabral Quotes

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.

Theater school is essentially like training. It's boot camp. It's like an academy to put you through all these different situations that sometimes are more extreme than what you'll come across in the field. But now you're emotionally prepared for it so that when it does happen, it's not a big surprise.

If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.

As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

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.

Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.