Aaron Douglas Quotes

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'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 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.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

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.

As an actor, it is my job to prepare for the role I am playing.

Ryerson helped me because I was around acting all the time. It was pretty much all I thought about, even if I didn't really get to practice every day; I definitely thought about it. Actually a lot of it was just sitting and watching, especially in my last year, but I think a good actor learns from everything.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

No, I haven't taken training as such but I used to attend all those 7 day workshops before the play. Those workshops aren't so professional but it's enough to give you a good idea what acting is all about.

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

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

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

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.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.