Quotes About Actors

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

As actors, you are social figures, and you are setting an example for people to follow, so I feel very blessed that my work has allowed me to influence people in some way.

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

When I entered the film industry, I hadn't dreamt that I would work in so many movies and opposite so many reigning and future heroes.

The real stars who have dedicated their services to the film industry are Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, and Akshay Kumar. I do not come in this league at all.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.

Directors such as LV Prasad would enact the whole scene for the actors. He used to enact the scenes for Raj Kapoor too during the filming of 'Sharda.' But it was up to you to emulate the director's vision on the screen.

With TV-writing, you write scenes and those scenes pretty much stay as they are when you come to filming them. Sometimes you might change things on the day because of the location or the actors' availability issues.

It's cruel to compare two actors working with two different filmmakers on two different characters.

I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.

I've been lucky in my career. I've worked with some of the greatest filmmakers and actors around. I'm so proud of some of my work.

There was a choice of being a director who's more familiar with the technicality of doing a movie, like learning about the camera and filters and setup, or being a director who can actually talk to actors. And I always wanted to be an actor's director.

When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage.

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

The casting process for 'Hate Mail' just got so difficult. Once you lock in one person and then you try to find the next person, you lose the first person and then the financing falls away.

I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.

Most actors have been fired during their career.

I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.

What's really important is the people, first of all. I like working with people who are kind, above all else. I don't really want to work with someone who will manipulate me. The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.