Jonathan Ke Quan Quotes
I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time.
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People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.
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The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
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Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.
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I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.
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I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
