Quotes About Actor

I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.

Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it.

If I was offered the choice of an award for best actor or best supporting actor, I would go for supporting actor.

There's a fine line between lead actor and supporting actor.

Legends have composed music for Ambareesh anna's films during his illustrious career and it is a great honor to be able to do it for him in 'Ambi Ning Vysaitho,' as it is his film and doesn't just have him as a supporting actor.

There is an imperative need for the creator in every supporting actor to be able to perceive the gravity of these roles.

I was always a supporting actor. It is nice to know one has the equipment to be a leading actor.

My name had been sent for the award for Best Supporting Actor in 'Tere Naam,' but I missed it.

I actually have a movie that I was a supporting role in that I'm really proud of called 'Sun Dogs.'

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.

We have a producer who is incredibly supportive and 'wants' us to have babies, if that is our choice, so that is all due to our show's producer, Imogen Banks. I don't really feel like I have lot of challenges as a female actor in that kind of way.

My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you getting into,' but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.

I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier.

I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.

I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.

When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren't an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it.

I didn't particularly aim to be a Shakespeare actor, but I suppose I had a certain gift or it; I certainly got offered lots of it. I liked Complicite and Shared Experience and Kick Theatre, and all the small theatre companies that were getting going. I wanted to be like that, making original theatre.

I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.

I was born in North Carolina but moved to a suburb just outside of Philadelphia when I was 5, so mostly grew up there. I decided I wanted to become an actor when I was 8 years old. I literally heard a friend on the playground bragging about how he was taking acting classes and thought, 'Oh! That's what I'm supposed to be doing!'