James Dean Quotes

When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.

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

I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

I'm an actor. I love to create.

What people forget is that I'm an actress. That's the wonderful thing about what I do. I get to play different roles.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do.