When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow. Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I'd dealt with my parents' death and how I felt that loss and sadness… — Adam Beach Copy Share
I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected. — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal. — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression. I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was. I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or… — Adam Beach Copy Share
I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground. — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indian perspective... I think, for myself, I'm trying to put the… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them. — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
