Quotes About Actors

Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are such legends.

A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.

Earlier, we had shows like 'Hasratein' and 'Shanti,' which had great storylines and mature content. Now, with a hundred shows running five to seven days a week, the TV industry has become very torturous and taxing for the actors.

Actors do all kinds of roles, but once in a while, we also want to do a meaningful film.

With other actors, I have always been respectful. Ayushmann is an ace actor. I love everybody's work. We are an industry of professional actors and filmmakers. Everybody is here to make films. I feel very good about it. I don't have any negative or bad thinking.

I do believe that actors have responsibilities.

I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.

Actors can't retire. What would they do?

Some actors retire, and some don't.

We've talked about doing a reunion of 'My Three Sons,' but I have an aversion to actors doing reunions.

I do think people do pick movies that reveal something about them that they aren't always aware of. If you ask them what kind of an actor they think they are, they'll probably tell you something different than what they've actually done.

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

I like directors who come ready to challenge you to ask the right questions about your character, and I know that directors appreciate that in actors as well.

The Tamil industry has a huge market and already has many talented actors. So, making a mark in Kollywood is not easy. I will have to choose the right script and do it the right way.

Sometimes, it is important for actors to take risky decisions.

You can't follow another actor's performance. You can't be Robert DeNiro, because you're not Robert DeNiro, and, you know, he is.

I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act. I would watch actors like Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas, and I understood them.

When I was a kid I really loved Humphrey Bogart. But when I was in theater school, Robert DeNiro was my go-to guy.

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

I'm not one of these actors who's rolling in money.

You try to find the romance in the struggle, or at least that's what you keep telling yourself. But you talk to successful actors, and the struggle always is what they miss the most.

I think changing routine is something that actors like.

I've seen many shows ruined by bad reviews and good reviews, so I always tell my actors not to read the reviews until after the run is over.

I'm linked with every actor I've worked with so far. I've stopped taking such rumours seriously.