Quotes About Acting

I'm proud of what I did in 'Daybreak.'

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations.

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough.

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

'Sanam Teri Kasam' is definitely my best Bollywood debut.

'Punda' marks my entry into Kannada and 'Krishnaleelai' will be my Tamil debut. It was a good experience shooting for both the films.

For me, you could say my big West End debut was 'Cursed Child,' but I'm in my 40s, and it's like, 'When is that beginning?'

In the 1990s, when I made my debut, an artiste would get easily stereotyped. So I only got the roles of didis, bhabhis, chachis and buas.

I have a little bit of experience going in and playing a character - I played a character on 'Smallville' that had been established for decades and decades before I took it.

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.

I've done second leads in movies, I've done really small roles, too. Other actors never bother me, I believe I'm decent enough to make my own place.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

I made a decent debut in Bollywood with 'Dum Maaro Dum.'

In some parts of Appalachia, actors and acting are still not considered quite decent.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it.

After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.

It's not a conscious decision that I only want to do romantic films.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.