Rachael Taylor Quotes

I have to evolve as an actor.

I got my first part in Silent Fall, 1994 - I guess I was 15 or 16 - which was really outrageous because I still knew nothing. I don't think I really learned how to land on my marks until after Empire Records in 1995, 'cause sometimes I'll see a shot in that film, and I'm like "Whoa, I just walked over to the corner."

I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that worked. That's how I cut my teeth.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that.

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

I think so often you can come out of drama school and get thrown in the deep end.

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.

I think that 'Degrassi' really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years, and it was one of my first jobs. I can't even watch the early episodes - they're so embarrassing! But I really do think I grew as an actor and learned a lot over the seven years.

I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

My collaboration with Sally Potter on a small movie, 'Yes,' was very special to me. It helped my growth as an actor.

When you first come into the league you don't know what to expect. And then if you do, you're ready, but then it's different when you're playing and getting reps. It's just like anything, you start to do something, play it enough and do it enough then you can get good at it.

Eight years of steady acting training nonstop... three years in the profession. And I'm still in the apprentice mode and I'm still watching everybody and learning.

I started to play in the fourth grade and didn't score for, like, a whole year.

I think many people grow on the job.

I am not a trained actor. My real learning began on the sets.

Earlier, in Indian cinema, actors were given a certain amount of time to learn on the job. That is not possible anymore.

I want to do only such films which will help me grow as an actor.