Quotes About Acting

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

I have three lines in 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3' about having to go to the bathroom, and it's the most money I ever made.

I acted in 'Oomakkuyil' under Balu Mahendra's baton.

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

I just want to act. And I want to be good. And I want to be happy, and I think that's it.

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

For me, Domhnall is an acting teacher as much as anything. If I turn out to be half the actor he is, I'll be happy.

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

If you want to be real about it, the fact that any actor books a job is a one-in-a-million shot. I've been so fortunate to have worked on even a few films, so, no, I don't wake up feeling bad.

I now realize the parts I played are too good to be true.

After doing films like 'Krrish,' 'Bang Bang,' and 'Mohenjo Daro,' 'Kaabil' is one film where you can't lie at all. You can't be a hero. You have to be real. You have to be yourself. So that was a challenge.

I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

I came from theater, which is its own beast.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.

I will say I would much rather play someone who isn't the most spellbinding beautiful person because I am not that person and I don't want to worry about my angles or how good I look on that day.