Quotes About Acting

The compatibility of character only brings two people together and this can be seen even in the real behavioral nature of film personality acting in the same reel movie.

The real life nature of the film actor is most probably just diagonally opposite to the reel life character played excellently by him/her.

The shortest route to enter into the Indian film industry for a female actor is not through an acting school, but often via a beauty pageant show.

Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.

I'd promised myself I'd never sing, dance or appear in my underwear in a movie, and I do all those things in the first 30 minutes of Boogie Nights. – Mark Wahlberg

I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

An actor should refine public taste.

I was very glad I could afford to say no. With the income from my businesses, I didn't need money from acting. I never wanted to be in a financially vulnerable position, where I had to take a part I didn't like.

I taught myself discipline, the strictest kind of discipline. How to be totally in control of my body, how to control each individual muscle. I could apply that discipline to everyday life. I used it in acting, in going to school. Whenever I didn't want to study I would just think back and remember what it took to be Mr. Universe—the sacrifice, the hard work—and I would plunge myself into studying.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

I don't think I am really awesome. I think I have basic qualification to be an actor.

I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.

When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.

I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

I've never been someone who is cast for having a lovely figure but for whatever qualities I could possibly bring to a role, so I'm still castable.

You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.

I had a role in 'DodgeBall,' where I played a pirate who played dodge ball. I'd say 80 to 90 percent of my lines were 'Garrr' or 'Arghh.' And it was all about what the quality of your 'Grr-arr' was.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.