Quotes About Actor

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

I've been very lucky as an actor. I have worked all the time. Some shows I do, they get cancelled. Some, they're critically acclaimed, and then they get cancelled. And some, I'm in the last season of this or that. But I can't complain about my career.

As an actor, it's really important for me to improve my work, and I take criticism in a positive sense.

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.

I did what every other actor did: there were agents all the way up the Charing Cross Road and up St. Martin's Lane, and I would go out each day and do the agents - walk into these buildings, along their corridors, bang on these doors and say, 'Anything today?'

It might sound cliched, but choosing the right script is crucial. I think 'Badmaash Company' was a very big break for me because it gave me a lot of appreciation from the masses. It made me more confident as an actor.

It's part of my job as an actor to look after myself. Your appearance is crucial.

Aamir once went behind a rock to cry because his director didn't listen to what he was saying.

That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

I'm an actor who works, and a lot of this is luck for me, that I get to be a part of really great shows that have these cult followings.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.

I am always curious to sit down with the actor who's playing the part after the casting process and get to know them, get to understand their life a little bit more.

Currently, I work as an actor, but I still love music.

Deconstructing your performance is the curse an actor has to live with. That's why I don't watch my films.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.

I was obsessed with 'The Swish of the Curtain' by Pamela Brown when I was a child. It's about a group of kids who create their own Amateur Theatre company. I was already absolute in my decision to be an actor by this point, but if anything, it confirmed to me that I was on the right path.

It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

When you use any kind of internet-based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or a foreign nation or a foreign actor, these are potential acts of war.