I never grew up thinking I wanted to be a quote-unquote star or anything. My thing was just feeling blessed to be able to make my living acting.
The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
I had my first screen-acting class in March 2015, and I was, like, 18, turning 19, so it's a risk trying to get into acting when you're that 'old,' in inverted commas.
I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.
When I'm acting, I'm just worried about that piece of the pie, contributing to the whole. But when you're directing, you... get the vision out of your head and on the stage.
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.
School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.
I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.
I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.
I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.
I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.
I'm always a people watcher. They always had us do that at the University of Connecticut where I went for my training. I got my B.F.A. in Acting there.
Acting is a life of rejection.
Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton.
I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.
I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.
For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.
I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.
I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.
I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.
There is a degree of role-playing in modeling, for sure, and you're also in a high-profile job - there are lots of similarities for sure. But when I'm acting, I've got to try and be present, and I've got to be emotionally committed to a character, both physically and intellectually.
I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.
I started as a model in Mexico - I was traveling, but my base was in Mexico City. And then I studied acting for three years.
When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.
Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.
I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.
Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
Compared to boxing, acting is more difficult. I have learnt martial arts and boxing since childhood. So, they were easier.
My acting technique is a combination of a lot of different ones. A lot of it is Meisner.
I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.
Strangely, when I was a kid, my first acting job, at 5 years old, was a performance of 'The Three Little Pigs.' They cast me as the Big Bad Wolf.
I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.
In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.
Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N'bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it.
