Lane Garrison Quotes

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

Ryerson helped me because I was around acting all the time. It was pretty much all I thought about, even if I didn't really get to practice every day; I definitely thought about it. Actually a lot of it was just sitting and watching, especially in my last year, but I think a good actor learns from everything.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

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

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.