As an actor, you need to grow and experience things. What you experience in life is what is going to help you and your art. Jonathan Majors Read Quote
I have nine years of scholastic actor training, and what I’ve learned is that training does not an actor make. You have to have an artful way of looking at things. You have to have a certain point of view. And you get that point of view through experience. Jonathan Majors Read Quote
If you’re not on set, if you’re not on stage, go to class. Find teachers you trust and who push you and who you respect as people. That’s what you’re getting with a teacher: a point of view. You end up taking those points of view and that turns into your point of view as an actor. Jonathan Majors Read Quote
Growth is uncomfortable; you have to embrace the discomfort if you want to expand. Jonathan Majors Read Quote
You speak to be understood, right? And you’re understood so you can be felt. And you’re felt so you can get what you want. Jonathan Majors Read Quote
If you’ve been in drama school for eight years, you’ve got teachers in your head all the time. Jonathan Majors Read Quote
As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak. Jonathan Majors Read Quote
There’s an anecdote that’s really been sticking with me: To be a Black man in America, you are born into the horror genre. You are not safe. Period. Full stop. Jonathan Majors Read Quote
I look for what responsibility the character has in telling the story. If you remove the role from the story, can you still tell the story properly? And if the answer is no, then I’m interested. Jonathan Majors Read Quote
