Tatiana Maslany Quotes

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

As an actor, you keep learning. There's no end to it.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor.

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 also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you.

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

I really loved working with Michael Caine. He's a really skilled and experienced actor. I learn something from everybody, but when you work with somebody like that, you actually learn things you can put in your toolbox, things about craft. Not necessarily life lessons, but actual things he knows that you can pick up.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.