Troy Carter Quotes

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

I'm not in the business of trying to be a celebrity. I like entertaining and being in movies. I like when people leave a movie and talk about it with friends. My biggest struggle is the press... its an odd thing and something I've had to learn a lot about.

I think a natural evolution for me would be to try to transfer over into the film and TV world and start playing different characters. Hopefully, that way, I can keep entertaining my fans that are fans of me, in different avenues and different spotlights. It's a natural evolution.

As far as the community involvement is concerned, I don't necessarily think that being a babyface or being a heel really affects that because, at the end of the day, people know that we're entertainers. We're very forward about that.

Both are two different things. As a VJ, you are yourself. But as an actor, you are playing a character that you want people to fall in love with.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

An actor is only merchandise.

I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.

You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

I never felt fanboyish about acting, about actors, about movies. I'm a fanboy with music.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.