Ian Ziering Quotes

"To be with old friends is very warming and comforting."

"Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects."

"My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates."

"I have a lot of irons in the fire."

"People have always told me I look young for my age... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself."

"I view having celebrity as having capital, and I don't know a better way to spend that capital other then helping people."

"The opening scene from 'Sharknado' I think was better than the original 'Jaws' movie. It was scarier, it was bloodier, and it had more high-anxiety moments than the original 'Jaws' movie. And that movie kept me out of the ocean for a summer."

"I don't get claustrophobic."

"I like action-adventure movies."

"I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things."

"I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in."

"I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies."

"There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops."

"I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!"

"Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else."

"Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can."

"I love coming to Las Vegas. I've always loved it and always had a good time."

"I'm tanned from head to toe, and it looks like I've been in The Bahamas."

"I think my perspective on my age is really irrelevant."

"I'm doing what every guy in America has secretly fantasized - being a Chippendales dancer and having women throw themselves at you."

"More people than not have seen me on television in swim shorts, so I don't have any problem stripping down."

"When I was a kid, it was always very embarrassing for me if I wet the bed - I was 5 years old. I didn't want my parents or my brothers to find out because they'd bust my chops to no end."

"I'm a dad, and that's a job you can't fail at."

"I always wanted to do action-adventure, and science fiction genres were always something that were of great interest to me."

"At my pregnant wife's behest, I took the job for the paycheck and the health insurance, and it turned into 'Sharknado.' I couldn't have played this better if I'd wanted to. It's really captured the imagination of sci-fi fans."

"David Hasselhoff is awesome."

"Bo Derek was wonderful to work with."

"For me, to get to play an action hero in a science fiction film is a marriage of two genres that I'm a huge fan of."

"I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it."

"In this business, it's important: if you consider yourself a journeyman actor like I do, you need to stay topical. So I'm always looking for projects that are challenging, that put me in a light that's different from anything I've ever done before."