Harrison Ford Quotes

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'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.

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

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.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

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.

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

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

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

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.

It took many years of acting classes to get even remotely comfortable, but that's OK. It helped me so much on a personal level, not to mention professionally.

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

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

When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn't know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.