Cameron Boyce Quotes

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basically. All those people pulled together and helped get me started. Like, showed me how to hit my mark, made me do this, made me do that. That was my first long-running professional gig. And it was like, they were just - great, great with me.

Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

My ambition is to get better as an actor.

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

I consider myself a character actor.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and it's why I even got in the door for 'Mad Men.'

'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken.

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

Regardless of what level the actor's at, you always learn something. And you can learn something from bad actors as well, who I've also worked with in the past.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.