Rory Culkin Quotes

I'd always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

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.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

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.

Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

I was never in an acting school. But I learned everything on the job like memorising lines, all the technicalities of theatre, how to use your voice and eyes and more.

I'm a technician whose efforts go into hiding my limitations as an actor.

I don't know exactly what kind of training musical theater actors get, but I never had that.

I think there are a lot of actors who are excellent at cold reads, and they go to an audition, and they read the part and nail it, but then when it comes to the performance, they don't have something.

I can honestly say whatever I know about acting, all of it, I learned at 'GH.'

An actor has to do everything, all genres of films.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

I could probably do a documentary on acting classes; I've taken so many.

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

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

People really don't understand what actors do.