Acting Theory Quotes

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

I've never been to acting classes or anything like that. Everything I do is quite instinctual.

I'm grateful to be in school developing my practice as an actor. In that process, it's difficult to say that you've definitively 'learned' something.

My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'

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 learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

I want to discover more things about acting.

I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

I'm a big fan of rehearsal. I'm famous for pulling the cast together, not so much to formally rehearse, but just to run the lines. My theory of acting is that it takes all your attention just to stay in the moment, and keep your attention on the other person, and get him to do what you want him to do.

I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

No, I haven't taken training as such but I used to attend all those 7 day workshops before the play. Those workshops aren't so professional but it's enough to give you a good idea what acting is all about.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

You can't learn acting through any classes.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

In my early days, I used to go to many acting gurus, Asha Chandra and Roshan Taneja being two of them.

I'm a self-taught actor, which means that I had to learn everything on my own, as I wanted to know the craft deeper and deeper.

I've had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.

I never went to drama school.

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.