Sophia Lillis Quotes

I learned how to act working in TV.

I was never in an acting school. But I learned everything on the job like memorising lines, all the technicalities of theatre, how to use your voice and eyes and more.

Any skill requires training. I took the corporate approach to acting and wanted to develop the necessary skills.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I don't think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

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.

It is important for an actor to play different roles.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

It helps me as an actor to always be on top of my stuff.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I didn't study acting.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

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.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

I never went to drama school.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

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.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.