Dave Bautista Quotes

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

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

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

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.

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.

In 1954 I was on Broadway for five months in 'The Matchmaker' and went once a week to the classes of Uta Hagen, a theatrical guru whose teaching in retrospect illuminated the whole of my training at the Old Vic.

As an actor, you need to use everything at your disposal.

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

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 would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor.

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'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better.

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

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

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

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

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

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'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.

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.