Quotes About Actor

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

I think, in Australia, it's kind of a crazy thing to say, 'I want to be an actor.' People look at you weirdly. And when I said I was moving to L.A., I remember people saying, 'No, you shouldn't. You'll just come back disappointed.'

I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.

I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had have listened to those people telling me that, I might have gone down the route of a teacher. But I was never really going to do that.

I am proud to declare I am Sunil Duttsaab's discovery. He gave me my coveted break in 'Maan Ka Meet.'

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.

Pay disparity is something I don't like honestly. I feel it depends on say, if any actress and actor at the same level bring in same number of people into theatres, they should be paid equally. That's just what I believe in.

If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.

As an actor, I always feel that each and every character in my films has to be distinct. The character Thilak that I play in 'Kavan' will be one such unique role in my career.

I think I am very disturbing on the set because I am singing all the time. I won't say I am a singer, but I do sing a lot.

As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.

I think of myself as an actor or a personality, the personality of Divine, an entertainer.

The expense of a screen test is one reason why it's difficult to crash Hollywood.

Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.

I think, at one point, I'd been in the five most expensive movies ever made - not that I had large parts in them. 'Apocalypse Now' was one.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.