Brad Pitt Quotes

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

I don't think once you book a part you should stop going to class. I think you should constantly remind yourself that you're working and that you're working on getting better.

I've had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do.

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

I love acting classes. I think they're great. It's like working out in the gym. It's a great place to figure out everything that's working and what isn't working.

I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.

After I found that I had become an actor, slightly to my surprise, I did have some insecurity, and I did take some rather strange acting classes at a place called The Actor's Studio in London. I don't think they did me any good at all.

My modus operandi is to become a better actor.

I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.

As far as acting, I just went in and just started training. It was the first thing I did right when I retired. I just went in and found class, and found people, found the right coaches that could sort of just train me along.

I will become a more mature actor and it's one of my dreams to teach acting as well.

I'm taking my time with the acting and learning as I go.

I'd studied acting in New York when I left Pierre - that was the big thing that I did. I worked very hard at it, actually.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

I have Janicza solely to thank for my growth as an actor because she saw in me something that other people just weren't seeing, and she knew that I could go beyond the normal, funny 'make-em-ups' that I was doing on an improv stage.

When I started off, nobody held my hand and told me what I should do and how I should portray myself as an actor.

The post area I had to unlearn. And yeah, now it's a relearning process. It's different. It's learning what works and what doesn't work.