Josh Brolin Quotes

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

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 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.

When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn't know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place.

I always knew I wanted to be an actress, and I had the attitude that I would learn more under people like Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne or Mike Myers than from someone who had never starred in a movie. I just didn't think that someone who had never been in a movie could teach me how to act in one.

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.

I'm going to become a real professional actress.

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

Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out.

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

As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

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.

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

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

My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

I didn't go to acting school.

Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.