My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film.
I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.
I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.
In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.
I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.
Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?
I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
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.
Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.
