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Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.
I've been in L.A., but I wasn't acting. I didn't know that I wanted to act, so I was in L.A. but working at a restaurant seven days a week and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and all that kind of stuff.
I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.
I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.
Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.
There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.
My directing opportunities have been awesome, and my acting opportunities, some have been great and some have not.
The AT&T commercials are the most fun acting opportunity that anyone could ask for. That being said, directing exercises a part of my brain that is really fun that I don't get to try out as an actor.
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.
The fans are very, very important in the team's success. Instead of acting up, you're cheering for the team.
I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.
I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.
I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.
I love acting, and I really am a group singer, and I'm not really a soloist.
I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't.
I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living.
Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days to do.
Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work.
Police work was fascinating, and I didn't imagine that acting was something a kid from San Mateo, California, could really pursue.
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.
It's a wonderful acting challenge to tell a story and convey emotion with only your voice.
I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.
I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.
My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.
I studied political science, and when I fell into acting in college - it was just a total fluke that I became an actor. I ended up changing my degree and went for a double major and missed political science by two classes.
Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.
For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm an artist; that's my identity.
I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.
At this point, I feel fairly comfortable in terms of performance. I think having a sketch background actually helps a lot. Because my background is acting, and stand-up, in a lot of ways, is acting.
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.
Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it just became too tricky to find a part to play, either in a play or a film that coincided with my schedule writing and or directing.
I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.
It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.
Essentially, what I do on 'Supergirl' is I'm acting out comic vignettes. That is its own muscle to flex, and it is its own skill.
The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.
A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.
Give more acting roles to 48-year-old half-Lithuanians who just don't want to be pigeon-holed as bakery presenters.
I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress.
I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.
When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.
I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.
My first break wasn't professional - I was in 'The Sound of Music' when I was five. I played Gretel, the youngest one, because that was what kind of took off for me in terms of loving acting.
I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.
I love to sing, but I really only love to do it when it goes along with acting, when it's my character singing. I'd rather not do an album or tour.
To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.
It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.
I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.
As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.
I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.
I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so uncontrolled.
Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn't prepared myself to be an actor.
As far as my education goes, I've always felt that was my hobby instead of acting.
I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.
I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.
Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.
I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take.
Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.
As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.
I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I started becoming religious. Once I became a full-on Hasidic, I stopped everything. I stopped music. I stopped acting.
Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface on a trip, Marching Band can call and command me to pick up my li'l jerkface.
When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.
I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it.
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