Alden Ehrenreich

The people I see every day have known me since I was a little fat kid. ”

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner intuition, an inner 'yes.' I don't know if it's destined or not, but certainly I couldn't imagine being the person I am today without the romantic experiences I've had. ”

The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do. ”

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off. I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted. You get bummed out, and then you go, 'Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself.' That kind of helps. ”

My parents weren't involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. Little film festivals of Westerns and stuff like that when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to be those guys in those movies before I knew what being an actor was. ”

I remember when I was 13 and telling people I wanted to be an actor, and being met with, 'Have fun waiting tables,' so I figured maybe that's not such a great idea after all. ”

It's appealing to me to get to be in a commercial film without feeling like I sold out. ”

I'm glad that I had the upbringing I did where I was just part of what everyone else was a part of. And prom and all that. ”

I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist. ”

It's not hard for me to access a bad actor. That's always there. It's actually kind of a load off your mind because, the worse you do, the better it goes. ”