Quotes About Actor

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I really preferred the characters I could totally create by myself, because I always think of myself as an actor first.

At my pregnant wife's behest, I took the job for the paycheck and the health insurance, and it turned into 'Sharknado.' I couldn't have played this better if I'd wanted to. It's really captured the imagination of sci-fi fans.

As an actor, you have to face the public all the time. It is a job that people fantasies, but it also creates prejudices; these prejudices are the scariest things. People judge a personal life or your image, and it can affect the characters I play. Therefore, I try not to showcase my personal life too much.

I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.

I'd done the movie 'The Punisher,' and Travolta was in that, though we didn't have scenes together. We met at the premiere and he's a very nice man.

I don't think I'm an actor who takes their characters home with him. But I certainly do take the preparation home.

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.

What I really plan to do is take the best scripts I get and consider them seriously. I can actually work as an actor and prepare a film as a director.

There are more things to worry about in the world than a messed-up audition. It's out of your hands. So often, it's not down to acting abilities but something an actor has no control over. So go in, be prepared, do your job, and go and enjoy the rest of your day.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

When preparing for auditions, I have no rituals. I just try to be as prepared as possible.

Randeep Hooda is a fantastic actor. His presence on screen is mind blowing.

I never feel that because of my presence a film will taste success. A film's success or failure does not totally depend on me.

The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.

I did theater when I was younger, and I'm not the best actor ever - I haven't done it in a long time - but hey, if an opportunity presented itself, I would take it!

First and foremost, I think it's just such an incredible gift as an actor when you're presented with a notion of essentially playing two characters in one - which is kind of how I approached Timmy in this version of The Craft.'

The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the habit of reading, watching, and preserving.