Steve Buscemi Quotes

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.

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

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

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.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

I understudied Colm Feore quite a bit in '85 and '86 - 'Persephone' and 'The Boys from Syracuse,' too - and that was great, great training for me. He was and he is an amazing theatre actor.

I've been doing theatre for years, but film acting has broadened my horizon.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I don't have actor training myself.

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

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 have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

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.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

Maybe I'll go to acting school. Acting is like boxing, you know.

I learned how to act working in TV.

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.