Michael B. Jordan Quotes

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken.

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

I have to evolve as an actor.

I see each project as an opportunity to grow as a person and as an actor.

Not that I'm in the stage of my career where they're offering me parts in 'The Revenant,' but I try very hard to go through the audition process because I feel like I learn quite a lot about the character and the people I'm going to work with.

I feel I have learnt a lot on the sets of 'Beyond The Clouds,' and it will be a life-long learning for me.

Working with a full Hollywood team has been an awesome learning experience, and I definitely want to pursue acting more.

What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

It's not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to 'Merlin.' It was pretty much my first job, and I didn't know what I was doing for many years on it. It wasn't until the third and fourth series - the fourth series especially - that I really found my feet with the character, and as an actress.

You know, I was a kid when I went into 'Coronation Street' and I had an amazing time. I got some fantastic opportunities from Corrie and from 'Soapstar' and I'd never say they did anything other than help me.

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'

I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.

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.

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.