Stephen Colletti Quotes

Acting was always something fun to do on the side growing up, but I never really took it seriously. I would do a commercial every few months, and that paid my school tuition. But in high school, I was mostly into sports and didn't go out for stuff during those seasons.

I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.

I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

My brother and sister were very sporty. They all did rugby. I was very into performing arts. I went to the National Youth Music Theatre. I was one of those singing, clapping children.

My parents were really encouraging of me doing theater, but the one thing they did do was say, 'You're not allowed to do film or television in high school.'

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.

I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?'

Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable.

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.