Dan Byrd Quotes

I do enjoy filming, but I do consider myself still to be a bit of a novice, and I learn a bit every time I do a film job, and I am very admiring of film actors.

I learned a hell of a lot from my co-star, Kurt Russell. He's one of my closest friends and was one of my best teachers. He was the pro. He approached it like a baseball player. Acting is a contact sport to him.

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.

On 'The Impossible,' I was taught how to act. Naomi Watts was there every day constantly teaching me. That was where I discovered I wanted to be an actor.

I always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K.

The person I've worked with most is Morena Baccarin, and from her, I've learned to stand up for your character.

'Cavemen' was obviously a big opportunity. I learned a lot about how to act and about the politics of being on a set every day. Like, who do you have to listen to and who you don't have to listen to.

Everyone's amazed by the question that how did I succeed as an actor in the industry, which has Kamal Haasan? It's because I grew as an actor watching Kamal's acting.

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.

You have to have a lot of skills when you act; you might not have it when you start, but you definitely end up with a few skills along the way.

I never really pictured myself as an actress.

As a good actor, I think you need to know camera, dubbing etc.

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

I think I have grown as a better actor, I have learnt more about people and professionalism.

I learnt that an actor should be willing to take risks, try new things and unlearn stuff.

I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.