"It's always flattering to know that people appreciate your work."
"I’ve always looked at myself primarily as an actor. I studied it for many years and it’s something that I went to school for. This whole music thing kind of fell into my lap and it’s always been more private to me."
"I would have to say that I would pick acting over music. Because I do music in my free time anyway and it’s always going to be something it’s always going to be a passion. It’s moving forward very quickly and hopefully I can do both."
"I did like school, I like academics and I love to read - literature and politics - anything. I do not even own a television. I was not a rebel in school. I was an outsider, but by the end of my time at school, I had a solid group of friends. It was a tough school, a very strict Catholic military academy in New York. It was my choice to go there though, because it was the best education my family could afford."
"I love acting and I love music but I am not sure how much I will enjoy fame. I have never experienced it before and in all honesty it seems a bit scary. But I guess I will take it day by day."
"I have always found that acting and music link together. The idea of conveying a narrative is similar whether it is in a three-minute song or whether it is in a character over two hours."
"The way I look at it is that no matter how much success you have, or failure, if you have a solid foundation in what you’re doing, it shouldn’t affect you."
"I’m a pretty private person, so when I go out to places I just like to enjoy the company of friends and don’t really make a scene."
"It’s a tough industry. It can shoot you to whatever you’re looking for, whether its rock stardom or artistic expression. And it can also eat you alive."
"I’ve always loved music, and it’s always been more private than acting for me. A lot of people I know didn’t even know I sang."
"If you're dating someone, it takes a certain person to be able to handle the attention that you’re getting, to still feel secure in themselves and in you."
"You may come into a situation where you’re being approached by all these women, and it's imperative that the person that you’re with absolutely trusts you. If the trust isn't there, it's not going to work."
"I’m very private, and I really love my privacy and my time for myself. Not having that seems a bit of a frightening prospect. Then again, you take it day by day. I certainly never expected any of this to happen so fast. I’m not going to worry about something that’s in the future. And if it does happen...you deal with it."
"When you grow up in New York you can feed off an energy that sort of incorporates into every aspect of your life. And I think you try and get that energy from everything you do."
"It was the first moment I walked onstage and there was such a connection with the audience. It was amazing just being there reacting off of each other."
"As soon as you learn more about filling someone else's shoes, you learn more about yourself. You need to. It brings out a whole new aspect of people, and you start really understanding their motivation. You start to understand where people are coming from, because you're always building up the history of your character. You start to understand why people make certain choices and why certain people judge, and what fuels them. But the bottom line is that it becomes much harder to really hate anyone."
"[Showbusiness is] not a glamour story for most people. They're struggling day by day to get through, but they love what they're doing and that's all that matters."
"[My mom and I] talked about the fact that there's going to be a lot of drugs and sex and money floating around, and that I'd have to be prepared to deal with that. And I told her I thought I was. Because you have to choose that for it to affect your life. And not to say that I don't party or anything like that, but you have to think of it as a business. It's not a party. You can have fun doing it, but it is a business. Especially being sixteen, you have to have a way about you that is more mature and more responsible - they're not looking for some teenager to be jumping around the set going "Wowee!""
"If there's a door, you have to walk through it, a door isn't going to do anything for you by itself. You have to be willing to take advantage of things when the time comes, and be secure about yourself when you walk through, because if you're not you may well trip and fall."
"Rejection is a huge aspect to the industry and you've got to be able to take it. You can't take it personally because it's a business. It's not personal. If you've got black hair, it's not your fault. They're trying to do their job and you've just got to respect what they're doing. And if they're being condescending about it, don't worry about it. You don't know where they just came from - they might have had a tough day. Who cares? It's not your business. Just leave and say "thank you." It's still an opportunity."
"I've never felt too much anxiety about it. I've always been pretty comfortable with my body. It's just underwear. Everybody wears underwear."
"Looking at it not being masculine or whatever, it's all in the way you think about things. It's flattering when someone says you'd be good for this because of the way you look. If someone is uncomfortable looking at an image, then they need to deal with their own insecurity."
"So everyone has a different life story, and you get to meet these really interesting people. It serves you very well when you get to hear other people's life stories and learn from their experiences."
"I hadn't been around adult modeling before and there are so many stereotypes out there. I guess in the back of my mind I thought the people would all be false. I guess most people who aren't involved buy into the stereotypes, but you soon learn it's all about the individual."
(about interacting with visual effects props) "It’s a unique chance to really use your imagination. It gives you a lot of room to play with because you’re not restricted by anything physical. During the shooting of the mammoth hunt, there was such an intense sense of freedom in interacting with something that doesn’t exist.”
"['Undiscovered'] gave me the unique opportunity to do two things that I love to do in one project and it’s so rare for that to happen."
"They heard the soundtrack and they were like, ‘Wow, when did you learn how to do that?’ I was like, ‘In the shower.’"
"It’s great. It’s interesting. Let’s see how many shades of red you can turn me."
""If I could go back what would I keep? A toothbrush, I couldn't live without my toothbrush man, I couldn't live without it."
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