Quotes About Acting

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts, not just my own, and I always memorized everyone's blocking. Whenever anyone wasn't there, I would always jump in. I was very hands-on.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.