Park Hyung-sik Quotes

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

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've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

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

I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.

Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

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!

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

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

What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.