“I walked
into an
audition
once and
everybody
looked
like me,
blond hair,
blue-eyed
white
person. It
showed me
that there
were a
million
other
people
like me
out there,
but it was
good.”
“Angelina
Jolie is
my
celebrity
crush… and
I know you
all
understand.”
“All I
ever
wanted was
a classic
car, the
Thunderbird
is really
like my
little
beauty.
You can
cut
somebody
off at
like 50
mph, and
they’ve be
like ‘Yes!
Nice car!’”
“It came
down to me
against
Dominique
Swain, a
really
wonderful,
beautiful
and
talented
actress
with more
experience.
I took one
look at
her and
thought,
‘Why am I
even here?’”
“I’m still
getting
used to
recognition
for my
work. A
couple of
months ago,
I spoke –
along with
the great
actress
CCH
Pounder –
in a film
class
taught by
a friend
at the
University
of
California
at San
Diego. We
represented
the two
sides of
acting,
the new
and the
veteran.
Pounder
was held
up as a
classic
example; I
was
introduced
as an
example of
what’s not
supposed
to happen
in
Hollywood…
Nobody
should
follow my
example.”
“But even
if I’m
left high
and dry at
the end of
this wild
journey,
just
taking it
is a great
feeling.”
“I fell in
love with
theater
there, and
after
graduation
I moved to
Los
Angeles to
pursue
acting.”
“I was a
handful
growing up.”
“Now I’m
doing a
film
festival
for kids
and
writing a
script
about a
kidnapped
journalist
in
Afghanistan.”
“Once I
took a bus
from my
home in
Maryland
to
Philadelphia
to live on
the
streets
with some
musicians
for a few
weeks, and
then my
parents
sent me to
boarding
school at
Andover to
shape me
up.”
“When you
choose to
be an
actor, you
are going
against
the odds.”
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