Kevin Durant Quotes

I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

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.

I have learnt to become patient as an actor.

I had never really acted before, so I really didn't know what I was doing. The casting director for 'Euphoria' set me up with an acting coach in New York, and he completely flipped my world around. The way you learn to utilize your brain and your emotions really freaked me out.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

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.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.'

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder.

I've had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do.

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

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.

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

I love acting classes. I think they're great. It's like working out in the gym. It's a great place to figure out everything that's working and what isn't working.

As an actor, your best help is just to shut up and get out of the way.

If you are a good actor, then all you have to do is give your best shot every time when you are in front of the camera regardless of who else is around you.

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.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

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

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.