Quotes About Actor

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone else in the family.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

I always felt that just being an actor is difficult. Being an Asian-American actor doesn't make it more difficult. I see it as an opportunity and a chance to help other Asian-American actors coming along.

I love just being an actor. I love writing, but I'm not a writer. I have no aspirations to direct.

I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.

People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.

I'm a very laidback sort of guy, but people assume I am a serious actor and a serious person. That is not true.

Although I grew up around movies, I don't know that I assumed I was going to be an actor.

There's this assumption that as an actor, Hollywood is always the end point, but I never thought along those lines.

Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times. That just made it more attractive to me.

I've always found that I have to audition, but that's a process that I kind of enjoy. I enjoy the challenge, and 'We're The Millers' was the same. It was a long audition process that I had to go through, but I enjoyed the challenge of that.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

I know when an actor goes in to audition, if they don't get the part, it's not because they're a bad actor at all; it's because it's not quite the right fit.

I don't really like to audition, and that works against me. It's bad to be an actor and not like to audition.

As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.

You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.

Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.

Gujarat is very close to me. I won my first best actor award for my Gujarati film 'Kadla Ni Jod.'

As an actor, you want to do your best but not overshine the film. No actor is above the film.

I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.