Quotes About Actor

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.

I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

I think that diversity in your performances is what keeps you alive as an actor. You have to keep constantly evolving and surprising the audience and showing them that you can do things they didn't expect you to do.

I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.

I think my parents were surprisingly cool with me entering the arts. Although, I think they thought it was going to be a phase, and they didn't expect me to actually stick with it, and rightfully so. They were concerned whether I could afford groceries, being an actor.

It's surreal. Here I was, a bhangra champion who had performed at an Indian festival in the U.K. and Germany, a television theatre actor who barely made Rs 1,000 a day working like a donkey all year round.

One rule which applies to every role is that you have to surrender yourself to the director with an empty slate.

The whole purpose of our search for a 'unit of selection' is to discover a suitable actor to play the leading role in our metaphors of purpose.

But Walter Matthau had asked $i million

You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.