“I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.” FeelsLittlesPersonsMadeI CanEnoughPlayCharacterGuyOpportunityGivenBitsActingBoysLittle BitGood EnoughBad GuysGood PersonPosters Author:Gucci Mane
“Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.” ThinkingMenPlayCausesActingBoysStageHe ManHugeCommitmentYeahFrontline Author:Yul Vazquez
“I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.” PeopleKidsSchoolFoundActingBoysWeakInadequacy Author:Antony Sher
“You reminded me of a quote that my acting teacher Stella Adler wrote in her book ['The Art of Acting'], which I asked her to sign: "The young actor feels some greatness inside themselves that they want to give back to the world." That resonated with me, but I didn't really understand what she was talking about until much later, in the way you surmised that my struggle to become an actor was from being this kind of introverted young boy.” WorldWayWantGivingFeelsKindArtBookYoungActorsActingTalkingBoysStruggleTeacherGreatnessGiving BackIntrovertedYoung ActorsMy StruggleStellaActing TeachersAdler Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Playing with guns you revert to a little boy sometimes. But they're not great things to play with, so it's just making them look real. When it comes to shooting guns or using any prop, you've got to make it look like you know what you're doing with them. It's called acting.” KnowsLooksLittlesRealSometimesPlayActingBoysLike YouGunGreat ThingsShootingLittle BoysPropsShooting Guns Author:Ray Winstone
“I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.” LittlesStillsPlayAgeSchoolThreeHoursActingBoysEightTinyPianoLittle BoysSchool Plays Author:Christian McKay
“I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.” FirstsSchoolTogetherFilmFoundSocialDifficultCommunityActingBoysStudentsInvolvedFirst TimeTheaterMassiveClassroomHobbiesOutletsElementary School Author:Holland Roden
“I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on Dynasty or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere.” WishActingBoysDiedFatsDeanDynasty Author:Jane Leeves
“Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.” KindLittlesDoneActorsFatherStarsActingBoysHeardCollegeHugeAmountLaughterTheaterTeenagerFestivalsGangApplauseLittle BoysCampusPrecociousOff To CollegeTheater Family Author:John Lithgow
“Sport used to play a phenomenal part in my life, because I used to play a lot of county sport, a lot of sport for my school. I love team sports. Talk about being with the boys. I love the camaraderie. That's why I like acting.” PlaySchoolUsedSportsActingBoysTeamCountyPhenomenalSports TeamCamaraderie Author:Matthew William Goode
“In high school, I got picked on. It's funny that I got tormented for what I'm doing now - the acting thing. People would see me in a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day at school. Kids would say, 'Hi, TV Boy.' They heckled. I never got beat up.” PeopleKidsSchoolNextActingBoysTvsBeatsHigh SchoolNext DayNickelodeon Author:Jason Biggs
“There's this thing that's come about that wasn't there when I started acting which is they do this thing called a chemistry test. They put a camera in front of two people, it's usually a boy and a girl, and they go, [whispering]. It's impossible. You can't manufacture it or film it, it just has to happen.” PeopleTwoHappensFilmGirlActingBoysImpossibleFrontsTestsCamerasChemistryWhispering Author:Cillian Murphy