Steven Strait Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Steven: My mom and I talked about the fact that there's going to be a lot of drugs and sex and money floating around, and that I'd have to be prepared to deal with that. And I told her I thought I was. Because you have to choose that for it to affect your life. And not to say that I don't party or anything like that, but you have to think of it as a business. It's not a party. You can have fun doing it, but it is a business. Especially being sixteen, you have to have a way about you that is more mature and more responsible - they're not looking for some teenager to be jumping around the set going "Wowee!

Steven: Showbusiness is not a glamour story for most people. They're struggling day by day to get through, but they love what they're doing and that's all that matters.

Steven: (on his schooling and where he went to school) Public School No. 3. Grades K to 6, and around five hundred kids. It was very laid-back because most of the kids were children of the hippy generation — so there were a lot of free-spirited kids. There were no boundaries between races, sexes, cultures, religions, whatever. It was all pretty much accepted given the way we were brought up and where we were brought up. So it was a really cool place to go to school.

Steven: When you grow up in New York you can feed off an energy that sort of incorporates into every aspect of your life. And I think you try and get that energy from everything you do

Steven: (on his first performance) It was the first moment I walked onstage and there was such a connection with the audience. It was amazing just being there reacting off of each other.

Steven: (on his musical tastes) I'm a classic rock guy. One album I've been listening to a lot lately is 'Exile on Main Street' by the Rolling Stones. Sticky Fingers too. I'm a huge Stones fan.

Steven: (on his home, New York) When you grow up in New York you can feed off an energy that sort of incorporates into every aspect of your life. And I think you try and get that energy from everything you do.

Steven: (on the performing industry) It’s a tough industry. It can shoot you to whatever you’re looking for, whether its rock stardom or artistic expression. And it can also eat you alive.

Steven: I’m a pretty private person, so when I go out to places I just like to enjoy the company of friends and don’t really make a scene.

Steven: (on working with Kurt Rusell and Kelly Preston) They were great, very friendly and we spent a lot of time hanging out between scenes. I learned from them by example, they were so focused and as actors they were amazing to watch.

Steven: (on The Covenant cast) I think it was such a good thing to have a group of people who were so down to earth and really there to work. There were no egos on set and it made things so much better and so much easier and so much more comfortable to be in the scene with people like that.

Trivia

When he was young Steven played in a city-wide basketball league.

He was an interviewee in a TV special for the movie The Covenant, a movie he starred in as Caleb Danvers. The special was called Breaking the Silence: Exposing The Covenant.

Steven contributed a song, a cover of The Fixx's 1983 song One Thing Leads To Another, to the soundtrack of the 2005 film Sky High that he starred in.

Steven attended Public School 3 in Manhattan as a child.

Steven has modelled for L'uomo Vogue, Spoon magazine, Details magazine, Surface magazine and Pop magazine.

As of 2006 he is dating actress Lynn Collins.

Steven began to take performing classes at the Village Community School in the sixth grade.

Steven has modeled for Harlequin and Hollister clothing companies.

After getting bored with karate, Steven began to take boxing.

Steven's mom has a third-degree black belt in karate and is a long-time east coast karate champion.

Sings This Is Living, a song in the soundtrack for the movie Undiscovered.

His favorite music group is The Rolling Stones.

Steven's hobbies are playing basketball, boxing, and karate.

Steven was a model while he was attending a private high school so that he could pay tuition.