Nicholas Lea Quotes

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

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

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

I learned how to act working in TV.

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.

After being signed for 'Madras Cafe,' I joined Jogi Singh's acting classes, where I learned the basic nuances.

I've been to acting coaches and everything, but they had to open me up and all that, so now I'm getting better with it.

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

I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.

I can honestly say whatever I know about acting, all of it, I learned at 'GH.'

I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

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

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.