I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.
I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.
Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on? Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line. Jamie: OK... Landon: You're in two places at once.
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
I'd just like to carry on acting.
A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.
I'm not one of those people who's saying "I'm going to set up a production company", because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.
It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.
I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.
As long as the acting is good, I can appreciate it.
Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?
I'd always dabbled in acting.
If you're a theater director, you're not going to be prepared for the technical side. And if you're a technical director, you're not going to be prepared for the acting side. The only thing you can do is go through the meat grinder of your first film.
There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.
The hardest part of playing the villain was the prosthetics, because I couldn't really move my face as much as I wanted to, and yet I had to move my face a lot. If I moved my face in certain ways the prosthetics would come apart, so I could do a lot of eyebrow acting, but I couldn't do a lot of nose lifting, or the corners of the nose would pop out.
Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.
I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.
I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.
I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.
If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.
