Gia Coppola Quotes

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

I have learnt to become patient as an actor.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

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.

Nick Lea is a great actor, and doing scenes with him was always awesome.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

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

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

I can speak to actors in their terms. Knowing I was an actor, they relax. You can have the best shot in the world - but, at the center of it, you still need a good performance.

Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before.

As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work.

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so many different directors in so many different things, a lot of them don't really know how to talk to us.

I've taken that with me since working with him; in order to be William Hurt, you have use every moment like he does.

I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor - the day in and day out of it.

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.