Antony Starr Quotes

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

I don't know why all these actors think going to a gym or riding horses or learning how to fight are the steps to becoming an actor.

You do some acting in a room for a few minutes, hopefully get something out of it that makes you a bit better at acting, and go home. Maybe the people in the room with you liked the acting you did. Maybe they didn't! Either way, it's not the end of the world; you'll be doing this again soon.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

I never used to want rehearsals, because I was like, 'Oh, no. I'm more spontaneous. I'm a natural. I'm a one-take person.' But that was because I didn't have any training. I was going off instinct.

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.

If you're not doing something right, you can feel it on stage, and if it isn't going well, the audience will tell you. A teacher can teach you sense memory and this and that, but until you get in front of an audience, you don't really feel it.

I'm not a very good actor.

The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

Let's face it: I was never a very good actress.

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

I would suggest it to any actor to get some movement classes because it really, really makes a difference.

What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

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.

Showing fear is like having comedic timing because I think actors have a tendency to go way over the top with it, and that sort of loses steam for what's going on. The audience sees right through that and laughs at you, so it is something that I'm aware of.