Quotes About Acting

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

You never play age, you play character.

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16 it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself even and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.

It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

It suits me to be in a series that takes ages to film.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.

That was the horror of the Purge—that acting as a Communist, Stalin had acted rightly. In that fact lay the evidence that Communism is absolutely evil.

Think of me pretending to be a lawyer, and not knowing how to look low enough!

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.

My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.