Quotes About Acting

I used to do karate, but then as acting and school got a little more hectic, I stopped.

I have this special connect with Tollywood, some kind of a Karmic connection.

Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited.

'Revolutionary Road' with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They were both so wonderful in it.

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.

I am keen to work in romantic stories and dramas.

I am very keen to take on a 'West End' show soon, as I haven't done much theatre, and that would be amazing. It is quite liberating to be on stage night after night.

I did audition a lot. One's agent is keen to get you into film and TV because there's more money. I was always getting myself into commitments to theatre companies.

I am keen on doing negative roles.

I am keen on doing a comedy in a full-fledged positive role.

When I started, my mother was already an actress and I wasn't keen on being one.

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing.

Every actor feels that he can do much better and keeps on learning and experimenting all the time.

Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.

I want to play Keith Richards.

I adore Kelly Bishop as a human being and as an actress.

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.

I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago.

I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.

In Kevin's movies I would like to stay Jay.

I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role.

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.