Quotes About Actor

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.

I don't have any high aims or goals, but I hope to continue my journey of multi-tasking as I have been doing so far as an actor, dancer, and also serving people of the nation.

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.

I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.

A lot of times, people believe that until you're a certain-list actor, you say yes to everything; you're not allowed to say no. But early on, something went off in me, and if something didn't ring true for a myriad of reasons, I would say no and was fortunate enough to have people around me that were OK with that.

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

As an actor, I am delighted that Innocent has busted the myth that a film star would never win an election in Kerala.

I have been parts of some films in the South where I didn't expect certain shots to be shot in a certain way. I wasn't experienced enough; I was very naive. I didn't have the standing of an actor to say that I don't want to do this shot.

I'm not a prude. On the set, they called me 'Butt Naked.'

The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

I was fortunate to work with the biggest names of the industry; I would like to continue this journey of discovering myself as an actor and keep experimenting.

'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.

The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.

As an actor I can bring the story, the narrative in each performance. If I can't do that, then... might as well give up as an actor, hadn't I?

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.