Quotes About Acting

In pro wrestling, if somebody throws a move, it's my job not to get hurt but also to sell the move and make it look like I'm dying.

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.

Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

I'm no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can't possibly make complex characters. I'm bigger than that. I owe too much to too many good people at the Goodman, Arena and Playwrights Horizons.

Thugs Of Hindostan' involved a lot of prep to be able to make the character look effortless.

I was just twiddling my thumbs in London, literally not knowing what I was going to do with my life, and my agent says, 'You got an audition for 'My Fair Lady' with Bartlett Sher.'

'Tropic Thunder' I think is a great film.

I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.

In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.

Before 'Animal House' came out to open up a huge market, there just weren't parts for young guys. That genre of film was my ticket in... One of my first jobs was with Bill Murray in 'Stripes.'

I came to Mumbai to participate in a dance reality show and thought that could be my ticket to Bollywood. Gradually, I discovered that acting is what I am more passionate about and that passion has helped my boat sail.

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

My character in 'Fresh Meat' is quite prim and tidy, and then I basically had no make-up for the whole shoot of 'Kidnap and Ransom' - apart from a bit of Vaseline to make me look even sweatier!

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

'Bengal Tiger' is huge film for me, and I had a blast working with both Ravi Teja and Tamannaah.

Some of my biggest complaints about acting in television were that I was always wearing a tight dress or pencil skirt, and I was always wearing heels.

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.