Quotes About Acting

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

A lot of people say I've missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What's so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.

From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren't any opportunities for that.

I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

When I started acting, doing theater stuff at a young age, I was always the comic relief-type roles, so I knew I had a funny bone and could make groups of people laugh, but I didn't really take it seriously until I started getting paid on a weekly basis; then I was like, 'Oh, well, this could be a lifestyle.'

I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor.

Acting is my passion since childhood, and I am happy to be in Tinsel Town at a very young age.

I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn't make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.

I don't think that being an actor or being a performer at a young age leads to failures as an adult. There's a lot more success stories than I think people recognize.

I think it's dependent on where life takes me. For sure, I absolutely adore acting. It has been my passion from a very young age. But at the same time I am very intrigued by the camera, and also very intrigued by props.

I was exposed to acting at a young age. I was very lucky to grow up in that environment.

I played Lord Ram. It was a difficult character because I was just 21 years old and I played Ram at such a young age.

I wanted to act from a young age and it didn't seem like a reality for me growing up.

I think improvisation is a skill, that if you learn it at a really young age then you can use it for the rest of your life, whether that's acting or singing.

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it's taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

People ask me why it is that when I portray the 'angry young man' on screen, I really look angry. They reason that it is due to some suppression in my childhood. But, it's just that I can't help it; it's in my genes.

To be honest, I never, ever thought I'd ever do comedy. I was so frequently cast early on as a high-born young man with... 'problems' and, later, as a heavy, from black-hatted western villains to the corporate raider to bad cops.

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.