Alden Ehrenreich Quotes

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

You've got to be dedicated and throw yourself into parts and auditions in a way that is completely selfless.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

I did work hard at auditions, and three years at RADA isn't like a walk in the park. And then it takes a lot of sacrifices, giving certain things up in order to audition, in order to do a play, whatever it may be.

The old adage about acting - that it's 98% energy and 2% talent - is true, you know.

I've got my head down, working hard, while others are chasing other frivolous things.

I am an actor, and that's the most important thing to me. I cannot imagine a life where I would be anything else but an actor, so putting all my energy into a shot comes naturally to me.

If I'm lucky enough to have the chance to play a character, I'm going to give it my all. Play my position and give it 100%.

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

'All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

When I went to auditions, if I didn't know the lines, I wasn't getting the job. If I knew my lines, if I knew what I was supposed to be doing, I got the job. And it was always like that - if I'm working hard, I get the result that I'm looking for.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life.

I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.

Working hard as an actor means you're doing what you want to do.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.