Quotes About Actor

Initially, I had started doing theater, where the actor has a direct relationship to the audience. So, moving into film and television disconnected me. When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.

I've managed to catch lightning in a bottle a couple times. I'm very lucky. But I want to do this forever. I enjoy it so much. One of the challenges as an actor is to stay relevant.

I'm a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

I felt reluctant accepting the very lucrative and easy life Hollywood had offered me. All of it planted a seed: If I could do something about the conditions of the world, I could probably justify my position as an actor.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

Dad began his career in 1941. He started as a character actor and remained one right up to '87.

Sometimes you read something, and there's a part of you that remains in an analytical actor place. Am I going to do this movie? Is this a good part for me? Is it not? Can I bring something to this?

Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.

Amitabh Bachchan's role in 'Deewar'... I'd love to do that if someone does a remake.

I have loved, adored and admired Irrfan Khan's work. Some of his movies are remarkable. So, working with him has been an honor and pleasure for me.

It's a great challenge to me, playing someone who is supposed to be absolutely normal and not remarkable and contemporary and yet at the same time does have a lot of fantastic power. As an actor it's a great challenge to bring reality to that.

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

I always look at auditions as not even getting the job as much as I'm just trying to connect with this casting director so they remember me for next time.

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

I remember when I worked with Fassbinder in Germany, actors wrote letters to him. But you see, a director wants to discover you himself. He doesn't want the actor to say, 'oh, I'd love to work with you' - the actor says that to other people, too.

The part I like best was my role in 'Blood and Sand.' If I had died, I would have liked to be remembered as an actor by that role - I think it my greatest.

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

If I want to be remembered, I want to be known as a good actor. As times change, we, as actors, need to adapt with it.

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.