Michael Trucco Quotes

You learn to act by acting. You only get so much from acting class. You have to put your act on stage.

I would say if you're young, if you're a teenager, act in plays, as many plays as you can. It's an amazing way to build your craft and an amazing way to build your presence.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

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.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it's very immediate when you show someone what you're looking for, and the feedback is instantaneous as well.

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'd always dabbled in acting.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

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

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

I don't get bored at all while acting.

If you are a musician, you practise your instrument every day, but actors can't be on a set every day. Theatre is a way for me to keep practising my art form.

I used to do theatre in school and college. When I started working on television, only the camera was new. Theatre experience really helps one lose inhibitions.

I know that I want to consistently return to doing plays. That's one of the most important things because I think it's the best place for me to learn how to act.

I love learning on set, it's the best acting school ever.

All that acting and all that stuff and emoting and crap will come after you know what you're doing. So when you get - when I get on stage, I don't have to think about it.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.