Acting Quotes
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It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
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I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.
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I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
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I just kind of fell into acting.
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You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.
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If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.
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My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.
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Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
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To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
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I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.
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That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
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I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.
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The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.
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Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
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With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.
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The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.
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I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
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I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
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Acting kind of chose me.
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I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this is a job. I think it's easier to get better at it if you don't lose your identity in it. You do whatever you can to try to understand the character. Because they're paying you feel like you should be doing something.
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Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
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I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
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One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
