Megan Hilty Quotes

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.

I learned how to act working in TV.

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Doing the soaps, every day it's constant training. Dealing with camera angles, the other people - it's great training.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

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

Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

I loved my role in 'Learning to Drive.' It was so different.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

The experience with 'The Knick' is a singular experience. That experience taught me a lot about acting and about being on camera for extended periods of time to try to create a character arc that travels.

When you do television, you're filming out of sequence sometimes. You have to ground yourself very quickly in the character and in the work and in the words. I think theater allowed me that sort of sharp, quick focus to do that.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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