Michiel Huisman quotes:

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

Stepping on set is always overwhelming.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.

I respect motorcycles so much. They've come such a long way. It's amazing!

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.

The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.

It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.