Quotes About Actor

At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.

Getting to be on DVD is a huge step for me as an actor, this isn't the world that I imagined for myself.

I am a fan of Amitabh and used to imitate his voice during my college days.

I've never considered myself an actor; I get much more immediate satisfaction singing. If you sing good, people clap. On television, you never know whether you've done well or not.

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great.

I felt very comfortable working with Jr. NTR. We immediately broke the ice almost the first day. I always found him very down to earth.

You might not think of 'conservation' immediately when you think of Russell Crowe, but he is a great conservationist in his own right.

Some people become so immersed an a show, they have an image that the actor is not too dissimilar, but fortunately I've never had that experience.

Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.

I loved to sing and dance and play-act, and I always believed that my dream to become an actor would come true because my immigrant parents had taught me to believe in the American dream.

When you are in America, at least for me, as an immigrant, I try to be as Americanized as I could. I just want to be an actor, I don't just want to be an Asian actor necessarily.

I never try to show an actor what to do or what to say. He has to find out for himself. The role of the director is to guide him to that state, and then to implement it.

Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that's not of any import other than, 'Is it a good story? Does it say something that's interesting?'

Charan is very mature, and I see myself in him. He also gives equal importance to family, and as an actor, too, he does his job well.

I personally feel that an actor should not take an important part in politics.

Although I played a cop in 'Jatt & Juliet 2,' it was a comic role, so playing a serious cop with an important role in 'Udta Punjab' was a change.

My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important role to play for the society than an actor.

I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

Obviously, being an actor I am very self-critical and I will always want to serve the fans, but I've always tried to focus on the positive, and more importantly, on the story.

More importantly, I'm an actor whose passion is dance.

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me. I've always been way more attracted to playing that than the hero.