Quotes About Acting

Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.

I think there were some dubious feelings about it, that the first 'Scarface' would not be surpassed by the second 'Scarface.' We were wrong; it surpassed it. The acting talent, the cinematography - we were propelled into a real class action film. Long after I kick the bucket, it'll be played.

Instantly when I'm acting, I kick into Frank Agnew face.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.

Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.

We're very comfortable together, but when he starts acting, he gets incredibly focused. It's made me think, That's why he's The Kim Soo Hyun,' and he's a great help to me.

I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and so school?' And when I say I'm an actor, they don't believe me!

I'm not like, 'I act.' I'm like, 'I'm kinda floating. I kinda did this movie; it was kinda like going to camp, and I don't really know what any of this means!'

I'm lucky because my two best friends are from kindergarten so they never thought that it was a big deal that I was in acting; they don't even ever talk about it. They still act all confused, like, 'What's going on?' when we go places and people come up to me.

I think the only way to return my followers' kindness and show my appreciation for their support is to become a better actor - and to help people any way I can.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash', after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.

I have done a film like 'Kaalpurush' by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and then I also have movies like 'Musafir,' where I am an out-and-out glam doll. So I do all kinds of cinema.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

I like to do all kinds of films.

'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.