Actor Quotes
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The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.
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Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person.
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I realised after doing 'Tanu Weds Manu' that I had become fat and was not performing to the mark. I realised that I had become a terrible actor. I did 'Jodi Breakers,' which did not do well. So, I moved away from the film industry and lived with the common man to know where I was lacking and what do they want from an actor.
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You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.
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Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
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You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.
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My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.
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You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
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I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.
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I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever feel like I'm cornered into one expression of creativity because I'm successful at making films or being an actor. I guess it's best to not paint yourself into that corner.
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Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.
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I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.
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As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.
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As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.
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For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!
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I don't really view myself as an actor.
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I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.
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Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
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Any actor who's onstage... at least this is what I do... I'm always using 120% on whatever the heck I'm doing. I have to make an impression with all the bursts of things I do in this show... taking the picture, shutting the door, opening the door... as long as I'm making people laugh at those moments, I feel like I'm accomplishing something.
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There are a few things for the New York actor that you hope to one day cross off the bucket list. One of them was I got to do an episode of 'Blue Bloods,' which was really fun.
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It's awesome when people even notice that I'm an actor.
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I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.
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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
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I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.
