Jasika Nicole Quotes

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film this,' as opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

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 thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

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 think I approach everything as an actor first. I'd rather walk onto a set and just act and just worry about that.

But, as an actor, the role that I enjoyed, in terms of really understanding and appreciating this profession, was Anoop Singh's 'Qissa'.

People think that theatre helps, but in my case, it slowed me down. I had to unlearn everything when I went on to a film set.

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.

All of my friends at drama school were still sat on the floor doing voice exercises and I was doing scenes with David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

I've never been in an acting class in my life.

It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.