Quotes About Actor

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

Fred Willard still makes me laugh.

As an actor, you are always waiting for someone else to be able to tell you when it's okay to work, and as a writer, you can just pick up your computer and start whenever you want. That is really freeing.

And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.

I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.

My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

At the time of 'Mr. India,' I had just started and was a frustrated actor. I didn't know Calendar would take my career into the right direction.

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.

Being an actor, it is very difficult... I applaud those that can... but it is very difficult to do cinema as well as fulfill family responsibilities.

I had started doing Bangladeshi films. You can say most of my aspirations of being an actor got fulfilled there but I also lost out as an actor here back home.

As an actor, 'Chhichhore' has been one of the most creatively fulfilling projects and I thank my director Nitesh Tiwari for making me a part of his vision.

The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

I was devastated by Gene Wilder's death.

Gene Wilder is so funny.

When we started work on 'Baahubali,' my sheer aim was to be able to live up to the imagination that Rajamouli sir had in mind. As an actor, my intention was to bring up 'Baahubali' live on screen for the audiences. I never even expected in my wildest of dreams that the film would grow on to become a phenomenon of sorts.

Even in the wildest of my dreams, I didn't expect this love and affection as an actor.

A career as an actor was never there in my wildest dreams and here I am getting such good roles and doing films that are so appreciated.

I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man.

The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small.

Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him.

Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting.