Acting has always been special and will continue to remain so.
I never stopped being a heroine. I began acting when I was four and bagged my first film as a heroine at the age of 15.
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
My mom didn’t ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don’t remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, ‘Man, I missed everything.’ So I just stopped, and I started looking around.
Certain people are like ‘Oh, here come the Feminazis!’ You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like ‘You’re the man haters!’ We’re always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don’t know if being nice is my legacy.
There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.
I started acting when I was young, and I didn’t go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.
It’s fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you’ve got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman’s beauty secret: joy in living.
I’m curious about other people. That’s the essence of my acting. I’m interested in what it would be like to be you.
Ideally, that’s what you’ve got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.
My mum’s father was a producer and her mother was an actress, so my mum was fully behind me going into acting.
I would say that ‘Shake It Up’ was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
As I’ve always been open to learning, directors have helped me with the nuances of acting.
I used to represent Mount Carmel College in cultural activities, and a friend in the team told me to try my hand at acting.
Acting is like lifting a 400-pound feather. It’s a feather, how hard could it be? And yet, you go to lift it and it’s heavy. For that reason, I love it, because it’s very hard and difficult and challenging and obviously I want to learn more.
I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not about words – even when the words are important.
Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
I always wanted to be a stuntman. If acting went well and I was able to take a year out, I might train and get on the stunt register, which gives you qualifications so you can do more of your own stunts.
Acting isn’t something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you’re going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.
I feel an acting stint would help me widen my reach as a singer. Being an actor would let me reach out to people who may not have heard my kind of songs.
If I’m acting at all, it’s going to be under Marvel contract, or I’m going to be directing. I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.
I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting seem like a really risky proposition.
I really like acting in French. It’s actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It’s fun acting in a foreign language. You’re liberated or freed from preconceptions.
I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn’t have pushy parents; it wasn’t forced upon me. They just said, ‘See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don’t, don’t worry about it.’ I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
I was like, ‘I’m only going to do musical theater for the rest of my life. I’m never going to do TV.’ And whenever I’d get auditions for TV, I’d be like, ‘Okay, whatever. I’ve got a lisp, so they’re not going to take me.’ And then I started doing this, and I guess it was my sister that got me into the acting thing.
Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of place as an Asian. And growing up in White America, that’s absolutely my experience. And I think that’s why I got into acting because I wanted to be anybody else but Asian.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.
Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.
The exciting part of acting, I don’t know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.
The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes… It’s not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.
While acting in ‘W,’ my worries about the way I act settled down. I also discovered another side of myself. It was a turning point.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I’d go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we’d all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn’t jaded.
I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.
Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there’s nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can’t walk away from it.
I’d love for Samantha to continue acting after our marriage. She has worked hard to achieve her stardom. Unlike me, she had no family empire to back her career in Telugu cinema.
I started modeling when I was 11 years old and acting when I was 12.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.
Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it’s everything that I am.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Acting with creatures that aren’t there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.
Acting is completely different from the standup world. You have these 12- or 14-hour days, but you have a great time doing it. It’s like hanging out with your friends.
It’s true to say that I’m a budding young actor. But I’d rather get my name out there because of my acting rather than who I’m being photographed with.
When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you’re going to be.
I’ve been building a future for myself outside of acting.
I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.
My first paid acting gig in the States was playing a lizard-transforming, shape-shifting witch in ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’, I believe.
I got into the acting business very young.
For me, I guess I’m the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
