Quotes About Actors

Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.

If you're doing movies on a set... many times, I've shot the end of a movie in the first week of shooting. Because of locations or budgets or actors' availability.

I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.

I'm a movie buff.

I love watching movies. I am a big movie buff.

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of actors, it's everyone self-consciously having a social experience rather than just having a social experience.

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.

Destiny wasn't on the side of Rajiv Kapoor. Worse actors than him have succeeded in this industry.

No actor can just have failures and no actor can just have successes.

I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors.

There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.

If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.

I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.

Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.

Actors usually feel skeptical about double hero films because one character might overshadow the other, but the late scriptwriter K. Subash has penned 'Karuppu Raja Vella Raja' in such a way that Vishal and I have equal scope in the film.

I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.

Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.

Actors are tough because they're not used to challenging questions - other than from paparazzi. And so you just ask one perfectly legitimate question, but one that they're not comfortable answering, and all of a sudden they look at you, and you're the paparazzi.

I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from 'Armageddon' to 'The Perfect Storm' and 'Contact,' and suddenly he's on a bunk bed and I'm on a bunk bed and we're doing this scene together. That was a real 'pinch me' moment.

I can't suddenly say that because I am acting opposite Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, and Varun Dhawan... I should get the same salary as theirs. Because I won't get the audience to the theatres as much as they will.