I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.
I admire people who can step out on their own and work alone - that takes a lot of guts. But I'd rather have the camaraderie on and off camera of working as a part of a group.
The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.
For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Was she on some sort of Candid Camera version of This is Your Sucky Love Life?
With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.
If you can remain true to the people who know you the best and not be sidetracked by the flashing lights and glimmering of the cameras, it's like, just being down-to-earth and just kind of staying real.
In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.
Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.
It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.
Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.
The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.
A camera is just like a woman, as long as you have one of them hanging around your neck....life is just fine
People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.
It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.
No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
Sometimes in golf I've got 10,000 people watching me. Cameras are easy. Doing the Jay Leno show was easy.
You're in the gym eight hours a day; you're not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making acting appearances.
For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.
