Toni Servillo Quotes

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

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.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

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 think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

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.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

I learned how to act working in TV.

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.