Quotes About Acting

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

After 'Entourage,' it completely opened up my casting within the industry. People saw me for a lot of roles that I hadn't been seen for before. Older roles. I went out this pilot season for a lot of lawyers and doctors. And cops - which I haven't quite mastered yet; I find that quite difficult.

I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that.

The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially, 'Why did you keep my daughter a secret all of these years?' I didn't know any direction my character was going - was it going to be a dramatic character, a comedic character? - I didn't know.

For 'Orphan Black,' all I got was the pilot script, and that was enough for me. I was daydreaming about this part. I kept thinking about how certain scenes were going to play out and how these interactions were going to take place.

Acting was never part of the plan - at one point I wanted to be an RAF pilot, but I wasnt made of the right stuff.

Literally, my first audition after 'The Life Aquatic' was for the 'Criminal Minds' pilot.

I saw the pilot, you know, because you have to have some knowledge of the piece that you are in, but I never saw an episode of 'Lost.'

I've actually done three pilots for Disney. I met with the network when I was 16 years old and had just started acting. I would fly to Los Angeles to film pilots, then fly back to Dallas, where I grew up.

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I did a couple of pilots that didn't sell, a few movies, and one year of nightclub work, which I hated. Then I did the pilot of 'The Brady Bunch' and never had to do another nightclub.

You read so many scripts, especially pilots, that really feel like marbles in your mouth when you go to read them out loud.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.

After 'Pink,' I wanted to do something that would challenge me further as an actor.

I played myself in an Aziz Ansari comedy, and that was funny to see how they saw me... flowing scarves and a flourish of pink! Eek!

I didn't even try watching 'Pink' when I got the part in Tamil, although I've seen some rushes.

I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.

I can't actually pinpoint anything that made me want to be an actor - I just did. And then anything after that just fueled it.

My grandfather, K.R. Balan, a pioneer in the film industry, wanted me to try my hand at acting.

My whole family was in 'Into the West' as a pioneer family; they're in the audience in 'The Great Debaters.' My family's been getting a lot of work off me!

I was Boots The Monkey in 'Dora The Explorer Live Dora's Pirate Adventure,' and it was the greatest!