Acting Quotes
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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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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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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Acting is a form of confession.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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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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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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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 doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
