Quotes About Acting

I did 'Daddy' when I was 17 years old. My father, Mahesh Bhatt, directed the movie, and he cast me.

After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

I'm in a Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, with Daniel Craig. I want it to be perfect.

I'm very proud of 'That Kind of Woman' with Sophia Loren, directed by Sidney Lumet, and I loved doing 'Gunman's Walk' because I finally got to play a bad guy.

The way Raj Kapoor saab acted and directed all his life, I don't think there is anyone today who can even touch him. He was also from a theatre background. I consider him the teacher of creativity.

Even though I've acted in many films, I have directed for the first time, and I will always consider myself a student.

I think the biggest advice I would give to any actor who's directing and also acting at the same time is don't even watch your coverage. You do a scene, and then, you know what you did; it doesn't matter what you look like.

Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.

I've acted just to get to directing.

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.

I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.

I loved acting, and then acting led to writing, and writing led to directing, and directing lead to five movies, and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

Acting in something that I'm directing... I'm really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It's kind of efficient, for better or worse.

My directing opportunities have been awesome, and my acting opportunities, some have been great and some have not.