Shemar Moore Quotes

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people.

I've always had an itch for acting and a passion for acting, but never really got to dabble into it too much, and now I can say I'm officially an acrtress.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

I had never met an actress or an actor when I thought that I might like to be one. I had never been around people in show business or from the theater or from movies or anything. And I say that as an encouragement, I don't know some people who want to be doing what I'm doing or be involved in film. You don't have to be from it to get interested and get involved. I certainly wasn't.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.

Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

I think every actor has those performances they've seen, the person who made them realize that's what they wanted to do.

I would love to be an actress!

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

There's nothing that I love to do more than act and I feel really lucky to be in the position that I'm in, being able to do it as my job! If I ever do anything other than act, it will be in show business.

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.

I'd be happy to play anyone's girlfriend. I'm happy to be working, ever. It's not an intentional thing to play these messed up, crazy characters, but I'm happy to do it 'cause someone's got to.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.