Quotes About Actor

I am spontaneous and not a method actor.

I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

I am a spontaneous actor. I don't like giving more than two takes.

I have never followed any sport in my life, I was always into music. So, portraying Sandeep Singh was challenging for me.

But I like some chaos on the sets which brings in spontaneity both in the cast and the crew. If the actor knows his or her spot, where the light comes from and what lines to say, it's a rehearsed performance.

I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.

The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that spurs the emotion of the scene. I too am afraid; I don't know exactly what I am searching for. On the set, we are all participating in this fear together.

Alan Cumming was such a fun guy to watch. I remember he has a song in the first 'Spy Kids' movie, and when Danny Elfman came to set, they were working on the song.

My wife has a small part in 'Spy,' and that movie killed me repeatedly.

I've always enjoyed disappearing into a crowd in New York. As an actor, I love to spy, and it's hard to be a good spy if everyone is looking at you. Also, I'm pretty shy. I don't really like a lot of attention.

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

Until I was about 16 years old, my dream was to be a musician. I played in rock bands and jazz bands. Then I decided to be an actor and kept the stable career of 'jazz pianist' as my safety net.

A contract player has to do what he's told, and play the parts others pick out for him. As far as the studio is concerned he's just part of the stable.

The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it's a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.

When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.

I didn't always mean to be an actor. I was carried onto the stage when I was two days old, but I never acted as a child. My parents were stage people.

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.

I'm most at home on the stage.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.