Taylor Sheridan Quotes

I would like to portray something that would challenge the actor in me.

I had never really acted before, so I really didn't know what I was doing. The casting director for 'Euphoria' set me up with an acting coach in New York, and he completely flipped my world around. The way you learn to utilize your brain and your emotions really freaked me out.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

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

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

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.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

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

I was a theater actor back in the U.K., and you knew the whole play, so you could plot your storyline and character. And then I did 'Lost' and didn't know, and it was kind of frustrating, but I enjoyed it.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.