Actor Quotes
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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
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I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.
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It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.
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I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
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You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
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I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.
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As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.
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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
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I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.
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The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.
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For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.
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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
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No actor wants to play to an empty house.
