R. Madhavan Quotes

I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.

R. Madhavan

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• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Play
  • Actor

• The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • You
  • Actor

• I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Brother
  • Actor
  • Well

• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Action
  • Star
  • Actor

• Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Money
  • Actor
  • Nobody

• I'm an actor.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Actor

• If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Guy
  • Popular
  • Actor

• I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Reality
  • Actor
  • Begin

• I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Character
  • Professional
  • Actor

• Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Actor
  • Author
  • Musical

• It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Know
  • Actor
  • Director

• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Enough
  • Actor
  • Busy

• When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Old
  • Big
  • Confident

• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Actor

• When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Actor

• Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Gratitude
  • Emotions

• My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Government
  • Turn

• The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

  

  Josiah Royce
  • World
  • Community
  • Interpretation

• I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Actor
  • Confident
  • Selfless