Justin Kirk Quotes

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

I am always interested in good performance, always tried to improve my skill as an actor.

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

I loved the idea that acting was something you could develop into slowly; something you could study.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I never went to drama school.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!

Acting has been very useful to me.

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.