I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.
If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.
American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.
British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.
But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.
It was a treat to work with Sarmad Sehbai. I wish actors had more teachers like him.
I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.
For me, Domhnall is an acting teacher as much as anything. If I turn out to be half the actor he is, I'll be happy.
You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
