I wanted to be a singer, but once I started acting, I felt so comfortable. Now, all I want to do is act.
I have an acting coach, a dialect coach, and just a great team around me.
Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.
Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.
My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and leave behind - anything that's going on in your personal life.
Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Acting should be an end in itself.
Apart from acting and singing, there is a philanthropist inside me who craves to do something for the needy and less fortunate.
Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.
Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.
Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
With physical prep work, you know if you go to the gym, you will get size. There's no chance it won't happen. The emotional prep work is a variable. You could step onto the set one day and have a disconnect with your thoughts and feelings and have a rough day acting because you can't quite tap into what you need.
My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.
As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.
None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.
I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.
When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.
I was never good at that Disney/Nickelodeon kind of acting. It's not really my cup of tea.
Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.
