Quotes About Actors

It started at 49 with 'Tango in Halifax' and then 'Happy Valley.' I can't complain at a time when most actors are disappearing. I seem to have become very visible.

Earlier, actors had a lot of power in their hands. And now, it has gone in the hands of the directors and writers, and that is how it should be. They are the visionaries, and we are the doers.

Neil Mahoney was definitely the visionary in taking 'Freak Dance' from stage to screen. He made it more cinematic. He brought the choreography, all the ways to shoot that. I was more the director of actors. I was in front of the camera directing, and he was behind the camera directing.

The human condition's like an audience whose members are always surprised when they're required to become actors.

You might think of a haunting as a loop of video or audio tape playing itself over and over for you to watch. Trying to interact with it would be akin to trying to interact with a show on your TV: sure, you can turn it off or change the channel, but I wouldn't expect the actors to suddenly stop and talk to you directly.

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

tape showing the "eight silent ways." Some of the actors must have been brain-wipes, since they were actually killed.

Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage of life, while concience claps, let the world hiss! On the contrary if concience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends.

I never consider whether an actor is small or big. Working with small or big actors doesn't excite me.

I have a learning disability when it comes to languages, I envy actors like Prakash Raj and my kids who do it with such ease.

'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors.

I think there is a larger responsibility towards actors to make television what it should be in India. I would love to take on the challenge. Had it been for me, I would focus on good content.

I always have to come back to shows to take out the improvements actors have put in. Laughs are addictive, and sometimes they're good laughs, and sometimes they're bad laughs.

A lot of actors go crazy if they're not working, but I guess I'm a little lazy.

As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

Over the years people would ask me which co-star have you been a fan of or admired. I have always said Rishi Kapoor and Kamal Haasan. They are my two co-stars from whom I have really learnt a lot. I have been a great fan of both of them.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

I am one of the very few lucky actors whose films is being remade in his lifetime.

Hector Elizondo and Adam Arkin were two guys I liked a lot.

I think most actors like to be liked.

I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.