Quotes About Actors

There's certain people you want to see in comedies; there's certain people you just want to see in dramas. Not that there aren't individuals who do both, but it's not everyone.

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

It's funny: There's a lot of comics on 'Breaking Bad.'

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

I feel like every actor charts a different course in their respective career in the industry. Everyone has an individual journey. So, you can't compare one to another.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

I am often compared to actors who were launched with me. I feel blessed with whatever I have got so far.

I don't believe in competing with other actors. I believe the only person you can compete is with yourself. You can only do better work compared to your earlier work.

I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

Nobody wants to hear an actor complain about too much work - especially other actors.

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody.

Our language - the way that we deal with most actors is we don't like to get very complicated because we don't want them to think too much because we find it takes them out of the moment.

In Sandalwood, each hero has a style and songs are composed accordingly.

I love to choose the right actors. It's kind of a pleasure to work with them and watch them imbue your concepts that you write.

I knew exactly what I wanted out of my actors - the film stars Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha in lead roles - and how each shot should look. A large part of 'Lootera' has been shot under tough conditions.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.

I've said this before, but after 'That '70s Show' ended, I solely wanted do films that inspire me, and to work with people who make me better. I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors.