“I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.”

American actress and director

Bryce Dallas Howard is an American actress and director. Born into a filmmaking family, she studied acting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and emerged in the early 2000s. She has 104 quotes on the site. Howard gained wider attention after playing Rosalind in a 2003 production of As You Like It. That performance brought her to the notice of M. Night Shyamalan, who cast her in The Village as a blind woman and later in Lady in the Water as a naiad.