Quotes About Acting

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'

My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.

It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

There were no prototypes for me - the telly was full of little blonde juveniles.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series.

Normally, when my stuff's on the telly, I don't watch my own bits.

By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.'

I love being able to do a bit of theatre, do a bit of telly, and do a bit of film.

I've turned up to auditions and seen faces that I recognise and I think I know them. Then I realise I know them because they are on the telly.

I did a 10-minute role in Rajkahini, in Manikarnika and a Telugu film too. I hope those left an impact on the audience.

Should I be offered the right kind of script, I will be doing a straight Telugu film.

I did Kannada when I was in college. I wasn't even sure of what I was doing. I started figuring out my career in acting when I began doing Telugu and Tamil films.

Sure, I have been a part of many Telugu movies, but I got those films because of my Hindi movies.

I was getting a lot of offers in Telugu when I was shooting for 'Oh My Friend' and 'Seventh Sense.'

I have acted in Tamil and Telugu, languages that were alien to me. It was then that I got the call to Malayalam.