I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.
There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.
Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.
Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.
I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.