I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident!
Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never ...
I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to ...
'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before...
I didn't act in college, per se, because I didn't want an acting degree. I don't know what you do with that degree. When I was 16, I saw 'Usual Suspects,' and I wanted to be a director as well. So I thought I should go to school for directing and pro...
I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area s...
I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can h...
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.
I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.
Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living.
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school.
I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.
I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.
