Andy Ruiz Jr. Quotes

I learned everything along the way. I only performed five times before I was in the public eye.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you're dealing with, and there's kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you're going to suck.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.

It was like baptism by fire. There was no school for studying acting. You just have to take it upon yourself to learn from your peers. It's about opening your eyes, listening, and watching.

My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.

I had a lot of learning on my feet.

I learned acting while doing my shows. I never joined any course or anything. I just jumped into acting. I learn from experience.

No one was like, 'Here's how you swing.' It was just like, 'Let's go hit and figure it out along the way.' I always kind of figured it out.

I didn't go to no school for acting. I learned it all by trial and error.

My job in MTV was my first real presenting job and I had no real idea what I was doing, but you kind of learn just by doing.

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

There will be a "Oops 100." They'll be plenty more oopses. I'm not perfect. I'm human.

You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."