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" Before 'Dancing with the Stars,' I'd directed a short called 'Man vs. Monday' that I sent out to all the festivals just to show I can direct and produce. It was also a template to launch a movie or a TV series. "

Ian Ziering

Monday

Festivals

Man

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Ian Ziering

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Marriage

" I think this show can have legs for a long time. That's why it's called 'Beverly Hills 90210' instead of something like 'West Beverly High.' "

" Failure is not an option. So, we're committed to the success of not just our relationship but to raising two amazing girls... It's dedication. We've anchored ourselves to a foundation of accountability, and we've set out to be successful at this, so we're going to do it. "

" I am an actor, but my most important job is provider of my family. "

" Being a dad is the best role I've ever played, with all due respect to Steve Sanders. It really is the best thing ever. "

" When I read the first 'Sharknado' movie, I thought it was terrible. I told my wife that I couldn't do this movie, that it would be the end of my career. "

" We're very sure to stay in character, to experience the Sharknado as though it was real. That's what acting is. "

" There's all these summer blockbusters out there, but nobody's talking about them... they're talking about 'Sharknado.' It's amazing! "

" We've shown the entertainment industry what social media is capable of doing for a movie. 'Sharknado' is now a noun. "

" As an actor, you know that every act has a closing curtain. "

" With 'Sharknado,' they've got a great mix of TV and film. This is a film that has film impact in the TV medium. "

" My career actually started in the second grade as class clown. That's no joke. I was always making people laugh, and it was really to mask a learning disability... When it came time for me to read out loud, I would crack jokes or create a diversion. "

" The brilliance of 'Sharknado 2' is it's more of the same - similar formula, more of the experience. "

" When I met my wife, I was forty-six, and it was love at first sight. Every day, my love grew deeper as I found out about her family values, that her parents were still together, that she wanted kids. So we fell in love, got engaged, got married, and a month later, we were pregnant! "

" I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher! "

" As an actor, I get my insurance from the Screen Actor's Guild by union, and you have to make so much every year to get that type 1 insurance. "

" I don't get claustrophobic. "

Ian Ziering

Claustrophobic

Get

" Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else. "

" You have to be careful of social climbers. There are a lot of potholes out there. "

" At my pregnant wife's behest, I took the job for the paycheck and the health insurance, and it turned into 'Sharknado.' I couldn't have played this better if I'd wanted to. It's really captured the imagination of sci-fi fans. "

" Leg day is my favorite day. You can't have a thorough leg workout without feeling completely spent. It's a challenge, but the benefits of maintain muscle mass on my legs is important because, as the biggest muscle group in the body, it also helps me keep the proper body composition in terms of fat to muscle ratio. "

" I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in. "

Ian Ziering

Involved

Career

" I view having celebrity as having capital, and I don't know a better way to spend that capital other then helping people. "

" People spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make movies that don't do anything. I mean, no one's talking about 'Pacific Rim' today. No one's talking about 'The Lone Ranger,' and those were $100 million movies that didn't have nearly the impact that 'Sharknado' did. "

" 'Dancing With the Stars' has become a phenomenon, and when I look at that type of reality show, it's like a variety show. "

" We barely had cell phones on '90210.' It started in the '90s. That's pretty much when fax machines came into play. When I first got the script for '90210' I had to come into New York to get it. It was not emailed to me; there was no email. "

Ian Ziering

Phones

Play

" I believe the digital world presents tremendous opportunities for the producers who understand it, and I am launching a digital production company, iMan Productions, to take advantage of this opportunity. "

" The opening scene from 'Sharknado' I think was better than the original 'Jaws' movie. It was scarier, it was bloodier, and it had more high-anxiety moments than the original 'Jaws' movie. And that movie kept me out of the ocean for a summer. "

Ian Ziering

Moments

Ocean

" I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it. "

" There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops. "