“I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.” ImportantDifferentActingGoneFourToolsConservatory Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.” YearsFirstsStillsHelpingShowsLinesActingFourAdviceTvsTenToughHollywoodCoachingTv ShowsMovie Sets Author:Michael Pena
“I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.” YearsBelieveMomentsKidsLastsNightWalksActingFourPushingFour YearsButtonsEmbarrassedLast NightNickelodeon Author:Nia Long
“No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.” PlayMomentsLightCan DoDarkActingFourStageBeatsBreathsProductionsHatsThat MomentDrummer Author:Ken Stott
“Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.” PeopleWantMayDifferentMightSongActorsDifficultActingRolesRecordsFiveFourSingingHundredPainfulProfessionRejection Author:Olivia Newton-John
“I'm an actor who loves to direct film, if I find something that I'm compelled to do and want to spend three or four years doing. I really love the process, though. I might have to just say, "Yeah, I want to direct that," because I want to direct something, but that's just not the way my being is. It's got to be a necessity for me, otherwise I'll just keep acting.” IfsWayWantYearsMightFilmThreeActorsProcessActingFourDirectYeahFour YearsCompelled Author:Ed Harris
“When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any jobs. I was cast in a TV movie called Protected Surf, and made $30,000 in four weeks, and I decided I needed to take acting seriously, because I had never made that much money in a year, much less four weeks. That's when I decided I thought I could make a career out of it.” IfsYearsMadeJobsActingCareersFourWeekTvsNeededDecidedCastsIf I CouldTake MeProtectedSurfMorris Author:Thomas Haden Church
“Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.” WomenActingFourMemorableTemplesMinors Author:Katharine Hepburn
“I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.” PeopleMindLittlesKidsWaitingChangeActingTalkingCreativeFourMinutesMonthsSixCoachesQuittingLeagueCoachingSix MonthsJuiceGreat TimesLittle LeagueTalking About MeCreative Juices Author:James Caan
“When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.” WayKindLittlesShowsFallActingBreakFourHabitPicksCamerasSitcomBad Habits Author:Mila Kunis
“I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting is something I'm learning.” FeelsDoneActingFourSevenAlbums Author:Jessica Simpson
“Nobody is really qualified to be the president. Basically it's an acting job. You have to act like you're the president. And every four years the country holds a big casting call.” YearsCountryBigsJobsPresidentActingFourLike YouFour YearsCastingQualified Author:Richard Jeni
“And then, one acting class turned into two, turned into four, and then turned into, "I love this. I could do this for the rest of my life. But, I don't have a background in acting. I never acted in college, or did anything like that. How can I go about doing this?" That meant going to grad school and getting some training, and I did. I literally walked down the path. It was real fortuitous for me to walk by that school, that one morning.” TwoRealSchoolWalksActingClassMorningPathFourCollegeTrainingBackgroundsActing ClassesGradGrad SchoolFortuitous Author:Tim Kang
“It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.” YearsAbleActingSecretFourUniversityUnusualFour Years Author:Mackenzie Davis