A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.
All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.
At that point, my biggest desires were someone with a pulse and someone beyond a training bra.
Everybody was calling us, People magazine, TV Guide, asking us to be on the cover or host this or that. NBC said they were developing a show for us.
Going out is such a hassle. The singles club scene where you sit down, talk, get to know each other, hang out-it's such a big ordeal.
I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.
I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.
I grew up going to mixed schools. In North Hollywood, where I was born and raised, it wasn't a real mixed area, but I never went to school there.
I grew up paying attention to every little bit of information I could get my hands on, I just soaked it all up - whether it was hip-hop or whatever. It was all from observing and being with people.
I had no set direction. Blondes, brunettes, dark skin, light skin, any race whatever, I didn't care.
I just want to keep doing good work. I want to grow with the craft in whatever I do. The whole famous side of it doesn't thrill me anymore.
I may see somebody in a club one night and go, Wow, she's the most attractive girl I've seen in a long time. Then I'll see her the next night and be like, Oh no, I don't think so.
I never ran with a clique, I mingled with everybody. I was great friends with five guys from five different sections of the school, so I had to be in the back corner one day and over by the tree the next day.
I started promoting clubs when I was 15. 1 was doing what is considered the normal collegiate stuff when I was a lot younger. I was holding my own, but doing a lot of crazy things.
I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.
I want my family and friends and everybody around me to be taken care of, and to enjoy their lives as much as I enjoy mine right now.
I was never really big on that concept until my last girlfriend. She was the first big, big deal I've been through.
I was never trying to be something. I just did what was fun and what seemed to come pretty much naturally to me.
I was three years old I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up by my head and run around the backyard with me.
I went through a whole bunch of girlfriends, but none of them in the sense of wanting to stay with that one person.
I'm always working in my studio here with my partners, and that's my biggest concern.
I'm glad that I didn't grow up confused and ignorant to the whole situation. It was totally normal for all of us to be there.
I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.
I'm planning to buy a house in Lake Tahoe and live there, so I can work on my music. Then I'll keep this place for when I'm in town.
I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.
I've gone through those episodes. David's already done the drugs and stuff. I'm not super-excited about playing the bad boy.
I've just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long.
I've never owned a country album. It's one of the few areas of music that I just can't stomach. It just doesn't fit.
If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.
In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.
It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.
It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.
It's really funny to see myself back then. It's like seeing my baby pictures. I was so young when I started the show.
James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
Living together was the easiest part of the relationship. We would have been great roommates even if we weren't dating.
My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.
My parents love each other. They work through their problems.
Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.
Once I was with Tiffani, I realized it wasn't so bad just to spend time by myself. You don't have to be around everybody drinking and being a fool to fit in and enjoy life.
Plastic Surgery shows total insecurity. Half of the people in Hollywood are from out of town and are coming here trying to make it as an actor or a model, or whatever.
She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience.
So many people are hyped on the idea that when two people get married they become one. That's just not the case.
Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.
The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.
Then they filmed T.J. Hooker on my street, and I got to meet William Shatner. That was another big moment. I can never put myself in that same category for some reason, it's just weird.
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen lived together for a year and dated for a little over three years, and we had been friends for almost six years before that.
To an extent I understand it, because if I'm spotted by anybody, I want to look and act my best, the whole nine yards, so it's constantly a show. But a lot of people do come out here to try and reinvent themselves. They take it to extremes.
We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.
What was the hardest part? All the media hype. We were together before she started doing the show. Everything we did became an article in something.
When I was in school I listened to a lot of James Brown. He had such a huge influence on the whole music industry.
When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
Engaged to actress Megan Fox.
Brian has been engaged to two fellow Beverly Hills, 90210 cast members, Tiffani Thiessen and Vanessa Marcil.
Brian's favorite sport's are swimming, skateboarding, surfing, and down hill skiing.
Brian has 2 Dogs named Alik and Bailey.
Brian played "Chad Corey Dylan" on an episode of Sabrina The Teenage Witch in 1997.
Brian guest starred on an episode of Saved by the Bell: The College Years in 1993.
Brian appeared in a commercial with fellow child actor Jason Marsden in the mid 80's.
He began his own music production company "Shen Productions".
In 1992 Brian dated and lived with fellow 90210 cast member Tiffani Thiessen.
He was nominated for the following awards: Young Artist Award in 1992 for 'Best Young Actor Supporting or Re-Occuring Role for a TV Series' for Beverly Hills 90210 Young Artist Award in 1989 for 'Best Young Actor in a Nighttime Drama Series' for Knots Landing Young Artist Award in 1988 for 'Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Drama Series' for Knots Landing He won these awards: Young Artist Award in 1992 for 'Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Television Series' for Beverly Hills 90210 Young Artist Award in 1990 for 'Best Young Actor Starring in a TV Movie, Pilot or Special' for Adventures in Babysitting
He is currently dating Hope & Faith actress Megan Fox who portrays "Sydney."
In 1996; Yab Yum Records released his rap album entitled "One Stop Carnival." Unfortunately, it turned out to be one of the worst rap albums ever made.
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