Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.
I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.
Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.
A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.
When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'
If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
If true acts of worship must be sincere without expecting anything, it should not need to be able to offer the promise of anything
You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.
Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well.
I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.
