Quotes About Actors

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

Canada does a really a phenomenal job of producing music, actors, and entertainers. If you look at the number of people we have in our country relative to the number of people that are prominent in the entertainment industry, it's pretty impressive.

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

Even on a large ensemble where their parts are relatively small - because having ten main characters obviously affects their screen time - the thing that attracts great actors is when there is that challenge to get some reality into something.

I don't like Type-A actors, and I don't like Type-A golfers. I like people who relax into what they do and who enjoy it for the process.

The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.

Today audience wants relaxed or chilled out guys. Ayushmann Khurrana is working big time, everybody is working. Look at every actor today, there is no extra charisma off-screen.

I don't usually watch my films in theatres when they release.

I like a good cry - it's cathartic; it's a release. But I've never been able to be so free to do that on camera the way some actors can.

Mainstream cinema exists in most large industries and then there is the alternative cinema which does not follow the conventions of the mainstream movies. But when your film is small and does not have A-listers, then you have a limited budget and it becomes hard to release your film.

My Hindi remakes are better than my originals except sometimes, the Malayalam actors perform better.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.

People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.

Hits and flops will always be there for any actor.

I started watching movies more carefully, watching actors - the way they act, the way the movie is filmed, just as a hobby in a way, but also something to progress to maybe in the future.

I think actors do need some hand holding to know what they are doing.

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are two of the most charming A-listers in Hollywood.

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.

There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.