Rose McIver Quotes

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

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 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 can honestly say whatever I know about acting, all of it, I learned at 'GH.'

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.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

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 think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

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.

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

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

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

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 didn't go to film school, I 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.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

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.

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.

I've been to acting coaches and everything, but they had to open me up and all that, so now I'm getting better with it.

No, I haven't taken training as such but I used to attend all those 7 day workshops before the play. Those workshops aren't so professional but it's enough to give you a good idea what acting is all about.

I would recommend any young person who wants to be an actor to go and get some training.

Naseer Sir taught me while I was a student at the Film and Television Institute of India. Anything I know about acting is thanks to him.