Alexander Dreymon Quotes

I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.

I think there are some people who have talent flying out of their fingers and other actors who hone their craft. I am an actor who found their way. I bettered myself throughout my career, and I am proud of that fact.

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I don't consider myself a good actor.

I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

You can act, or you can't. I'm sure a lot of people who are serious about acting would disagree, but I'm not really worried about them.