I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.
You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.
I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it's a legacy that should be kept alive. In the future, it's something I really want.
I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.
I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.
It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.
I have amazing parents and some really great friends that would kick my butt if I ever started acting different.
I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.
Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Acting is always a challenge.
I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have multiple days off each week. Also, the writing allows me to 'do' movies that I would never do as an actor.
There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.
I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.
Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.
I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.
We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.
Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!
Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.
Acting was just something that came really naturally to me, and it was just something that I knew how to do.
