Donnie Yen Quotes

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

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.

Obviously, modeling and acting are very different. With acting, there's just so much more to explore on an intellectual, emotional, and physical level, especially with 'Ma.'

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

I've never been in an acting class in my life.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

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.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

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.

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.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

It's funny because, if you're not an actor, people always tend to say, 'How do you memorize all those lines? Is that really hard?' I'm always like, 'That's just a small part of it. I have to seek my craft and my emotions' - you know, all this gross, actor-y stuff.

As an actor, you tend to draw on your human instincts and your background, what you've gone through as an individual.