Jon Favreau Quotes

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

I didn't go to acting school.

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

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.

It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.

I'd always wanted to try my hand at every bit of the acting field.

From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.

When I was in college, it was on the recommendation of a friend of mine. He recommended that I take an acting class, and so I kind of did. I was very open to feedback and open to suggestions. I had a little bit of space in my schedule, and I guess, as the story goes, I went into an acting class, and I kind of got the bug for it.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I like everything about acting.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

I didn't study acting.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

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

I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.