I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.
The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.
I am very different in real life as compared to whatever people have seen of me on the big screen.
There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.
In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.
I'm always surrounded by good-looking guys, like Zac Efron, so I have to be with someone who's not going to get jealous about any of that, or when I'm kissing somebody in a scene.
And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.
I really enjoy being an actor!
It's much more enjoyable being an actor.
Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.
At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.
I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.
As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.
I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.
Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.
Being an actor is great; you chill in your trailer, and they bring you a breakfast burrito and coffee. But as director, you're responsible for every little thing.
As an actor, your life is constant ups and downs. My friends and I joke that when a job ends and nothing is lined up, you have nothing to do for the rest of your life. You just ride that wave.
I don't envy young actors.
Movies are boring. It's like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It's just horrible. Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it's 18 hours of doing not a thing.
I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.
I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.
The life of an actor can be very enviable.
I love being an actor.
