Quotes About Acting

That is the next step for out trans actors - to just be treated as actors and not 'trans actors.'

I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?'

With movies, you come and go as an actor, especially if you are not the lead, from week to week. You don't really have a lot of time to get to know anyone, and then on to the next thing. I know a lot of actors who find fulfillment in playing an entirely new character. I like to stick with one character and create a family with the people around me.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.

I'm dying to play a nice guy! No one's willing to cast me. They know I'm all right at bashing people up, but they don't know if I can do the other stuff. And I can.

I do get starstruck working with Bruce because even though he is such a nice guy he's a real movie star. I grew up watching his movies it is just really hard to get used to just being around Bruce Willis. I mean, he's Bruce Willis!

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

I often played nice guys when I was younger, and it's nice to be able to explore the darker side.

I haven't played a lot of nice guys.

I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.

I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people for some reason - because I have a nice face or something.

People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.

People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'

I would not want compliments that 'I can do different roles'. I want compliments that whatever I did, I did nicely. That's how I see acting.

There have been auditions where they've said nicely, 'Would you be willing to go to the gym for this role?'

Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.

I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.

Hollywood... that's not going to be my niche at all. If anyone is going wants to work with me, I would think it's going to be independent films. I'm not 22!

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

I had a niche. And my niche was that I was brown. So it's like, 'Great, I get to go up for all these 'brown parts.'' I call them 'brown parts' because that's what they are. That's not to be resentful, because I loved playing those parts - I got to meet so many cool actors.

That boy-next-door, love interest crush has been my niche since 'Austin & Ally.'

I just want to act - commercial, mainstream, niche or art - my choices are not defined by labels.