I started acting when I was seven-years-old. By the time I was 17 I would say: "If I'm not a star by the time I'm 18, I'll get out of the business. "
Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.
I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.
Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.
You never really see me acting a fool on TV.
It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.
I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.
I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.
Acting requires risk, and that's what feeling vulnerable is.
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.
All that celebrity stuff isn't me. It's just not acting.
You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.
Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.
Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.