Quotes About Actor

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

The cast of 'The Big C' is such an amazing group of people. They're so joyful and just open their arms to you as an actor.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

When I started out as an actor I knew very little, which was probably a good thing. I was totally open. You don't judge yourself, you do it.

I have quite a handful of projects here in Tollygunje film industry. There are films like 'Aschorjo Prodip,' where I essay a modern day salesman, and others like Aparna Sen's 'Gaynar Baksho.' Let the audience judge me for these roles.

An actor should be judged by his performance only.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me included. I know that when an actor comes out with some poetry or an album, I think, 'Oh crikey, what's this going to be like?'

It was tough to not be judgmental of a person like Harshad Mehta. But that's where the training of an actor comes into play. My job is to create that character and present him to the audience. If even one per cent of judgment creeps in, then the whole performance will be affected.

I don't do Judy Garland or Mae West, and I'm not a female impersonator. I'm an actor.

The only day I will worry is if I stop getting exciting roles. As an actor, I have so much to give. There's a lot of fire and hunger in me to juice every part that I get.

That's an actor's dream to get something meaty and juicy and challenging to work on.

As an actor, the flaws are the things that are juicy to play. If the character is perfect, it can be a little boring.

Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn.

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

I usually played out and out heavies. No one else 'saw' me in any other role. No one else had ever believed I could be anything but a heavy. It was a heavy in a picture with Clara Kimball Young that June Mathis saw me and decided to cast me as Julio. 'There is the man for Julio,' she said, 'He, and no one other.'

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

As a professional actor, you have to do a lot of things and a steamy number is just one of them.

My whole career has been a struggle for dignity and justification, to prove that I'd made the right decision to be an actor in the first place.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

Buster Keaton is my hero.

I'm keen to go back to Hindi films, both as an actor and even better, as a director.

I'm more keen on roles that have a lasting impact even if I get only a minute on screen.

If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble. But you should have esteem and not feel bad when you don't book something. So I think you should just stay humble, but you also need to have some esteem to make yourself keep going.