59 Quotes by Jonathan Majors

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you've been in drama school for eight years, you've got teachers in your head all the time.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

In war, the first thing that goes, when you try to take over culture, is the statues. I think we all can recall statues with their heads cut off in museums.

So I feel now very much like a guardian. I'm standing in front of art. I'm standing in front of cinema. I'm standing in front of Black culture. I'm standing in front of the history of America, and I'm protecting it by making art, by protecting our art, and by promoting our art.

There's a certain mentality that military brats have, you know? Especially if you're a male, and your father's the one in the forces.