Mya Quotes

As an actor, you keep learning. There's no end to it.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

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.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

I love acting classes. I think they're great. It's like working out in the gym. It's a great place to figure out everything that's working and what isn't working.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

I've had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything.

I was doing the work I was capable of doing with my own native talent, but when I looked at actors like Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, Kim Stanley, and Geraldine Page, I knew that they knew something that I didn't know. I wanted to find out what that was.

I did 10 years on 'Sopranos,' but the whole craft of acting is relatively new to me. I'm still learning that, and I'll be learning that forever.

I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor - the day in and day out of it.

I'm grateful to be in school developing my practice as an actor. In that process, it's difficult to say that you've definitively 'learned' something.

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

I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.