Quotes About Actor

Do you think he's the murderer?" "It's worse than that -- he's an actor!

I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can't wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.

I was intimidated by Malkovich for, like, a couple of days, and then I wasn't. He's awesome. He's so cool. He was so wonderful to work with.

It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

In 'Jonaki,' it isn't about the individual actor. The actor is as important as the wall, or the water flowing down the wall, or a shadow. That kind of acting is also fascinating to me, not to be invisible necessarily, but to be in perfect synchronicity with the environment.

I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

'Slumdog' initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective of cinema and of being an actor forever.

I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.

With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

I'm an actor, and my main purpose is to bring out interesting stories to life. If it involves a cause that I can be a part of, I most definitely will.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an actor is such an American thing. The Iranian culture is not about dreaming. It's about taking over your father's business, falling into line.

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.

I feel that, irrespective of a hit or flop, there's always pressure on an actor. When you give a flop, there's a pressure to ensure that the next film works, and when you give a hit, you want to keep it going. So, the pressure of success and failure is always there, and that's what keeps me going.

I think an actor should look for a good role irrespective of its length.

You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other actors.

If you're an actor from New York, and you're Italian-American, you grow up hoping Marty Scorsese knows your name at some point before you die.

Jack Bender is a real actor's director. Because he was an actor, and because he directed theater, he really enjoys that process.

Believe it or not, Jack Lemmon was my inspiration. I saw him in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Stratford theater. I was just 21 or 22 at the time and I thought some day I would like to be an actor.