Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.
I'm only thirteen, so I have role-models! But I've sort of experienced... my sister has always been my role-model because I've always seen her. She's been acting my whole life and she's grown up on film, so it's neat for me to get to travel around and do interviews, because I've always seen her doing it.
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.
What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.
Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.
To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.
I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.
I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this same area. I have been acting and playing music since childhood. It's what I enjoyed most.
When I'm onstage doing standup, no one yells "Cut!" or tells me what to do. I'm DeRay, and I use my own words. With acting, you're portraying a character with someone else's words. Still, you definitely want to inject a little of yourself into every role.
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music, you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.
There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.
There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.
The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.
Sometimes we overcomplicate living the gospel. Consistency in acting in accordance with the Lord’s will is key.
The acting stuff is more important to me than actually being a big star.
If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.
