Robert Lorenz Quotes

I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.

Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

In my early days, I used to go to many acting gurus, Asha Chandra and Roshan Taneja being two of them.

Before acting offers came by, I dabbled in theatre under the aegis of the late thespian Dinesh Thakur. He was instrumental in honing my acting skills.

I think actors do need some hand holding to know what they are doing.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.

I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can.

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

Jack Bender is a real actor's director. Because he was an actor, and because he directed theater, he really enjoys that process.

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.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

Usually on films, you get used to kind of being told, 'This is what you're going to wear, this is what you're going to hold, and remember, you're lucky to be here, and shut up.'

I have a coach, but I'm not theater-trained or a technical actor.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.