And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.
For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.
I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
I've been to acting coaches and everything, but they had to open me up and all that, so now I'm getting better with it.
My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'
You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
Every actor has a method.
I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.
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.
I just want to be a better actor. You can always get better.
You see, I've never really studied acting.
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.
I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.
It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.
I am not into method acting.
I went to Julliard where they use a lot of voice and speech exercises.
I don't believe in method acting.
That's basically how I learned everything as an actor. I was just a kid, and I worked with these actors, and I'd ask them questions, and then something would work for me, and I'd try to move forward with it.
I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
Lee Strasberg taught me different ways in which a scene can be approached so that it is perfect. Acting schools also open you up - you react differently to each scene. It makes you a very reactive person.
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
I need to grow as an actor. The wonderful thing is you never stop learning, and as my only interest is trying to perfect what I do, it's wonderful because I'll never succeed, so I'll have to keep working.
Nothing is better than showing up twice a week, acting like a 12 year-old for two hours, and then going home.
