The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor, you've got acting, but as a showrunner you still get to edit for three months and after that ends you get to do a sound mix. So, as a writer-performer in television, it's a very nurturing, gradual environment to say goodbye to a show.
Getting up early and setting myself daily targets, even outside of acting, keeps me active and motivated in general and thus happier, which I hope translates into my personality and my work.
In acting, you draw so much on your private life.
I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.
If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.
I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.
When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.
I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.
I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.
I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.
Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.
I actually like acting in things that I'm directing because I'm able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.
My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.
If you don't love acting more than anything else, don't do it. It's not a normal life. It will take you away from your family, friends and life in general.
I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.
I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.
I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person of integrity. If we want to be a person of charity and love, we act as if we have that characteristic and we will be that person. The Savior alluded to this principle when he asked, ‘What manner of men ought ye to be?’ Verily I say unto you, even as I am. ' We should strive to become like him by acting as he would act.
I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way. " I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.