Quotes About Acting

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

Acting has always been a strong force in my life, but it was hard to change direction. I didn't make a paycheck for two years.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

I don't know what it is about me and this cop thing, but I get a lot of cop offers. Everyone always assumes that I'm someone on the force, but as long as they are paying me, I will play a cop until the day I die.

There's so many things I want to accomplish in the world of acting. But, the two most important are that I want to keep paying the bills and I want to get better. That's about it. I enjoy what I do. I'll stay busy. I've been lucky.

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.

There is no denying that TV pays really well.

I now go to my dad's grave to read scripts and learn lines. It's the most peaceful place. I go to see him, and it's fantastic.

As a producer, I have the luxury of coming and going according to my convenience. As a director I cannot do that. I gave up my acting career at its peak for the same reason.

The film itself, and my role as Moses, will always remain one of the creative peaks of my career.

My acting teacher always told us the script should be crumpled up and covered in coffee stains and peanut butter smudges - you should have that bad boy on you at all times.

I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

I think my advice to other actors would be to get in classes. Get out in front of people. Put up scenes in front of your peers.

I don't have an acting coach, but the closest thing I have would be some of my peers that are my close friends. We bounce ideas off each other and help one another run our lines all the time.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point.

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

I believe I never finished playing Sherry Palmer, that's why when the thought they shot and killed me, Penny's butt kept breathing on the floor, because I believe that she never died. I just feel like that's a character that I would want to play to feel a completion, because I never really completed playing her.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

I am the same person who came to this city Mumbai a few years ago to act in Hindi films, and I am just continuing doing that. I did not change as a person. All that happens is people change around me.