Quotes About Acting

When I was younger, I always was like, 'I want to be a serious actor.' I wasn't interested in doing a Disney show or a Nick show. But here I am, and it's great.

Nick Lea is a great actor, and doing scenes with him was always awesome.

I actually never auditioned for 'Full House.' I had done a guest appearance on 'Valerie' as the next door neighbor's niece, and from that I got into 'Full House.' I was only five years old, and I was on the show until I was 13.

I am not a practising Jew, and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things inside me, which is very handy for acting. There are a lot of things I can draw on.

Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.

I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.

I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that.

One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as the lead, and I got fired three nights after the open.

I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom.

Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics.

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

I've been auditioning since I'm nine years old. Honestly, most of my friends I've met in audition rooms because you're always auditioning.

When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.

Ever since I was maybe nine or 10 years old, I'd say, 'I'm gonna be an actor, and I'm gonna go to Julliard, and I'm gonna be in movies.' My parents never said, 'What's your backup plan?'

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

Doing a series of 'Facejacker' takes about nine months. It's pretty intense.