Actor Quotes
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.
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Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.
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When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
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I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
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Working with Sukumar was amazing. He's someone who trusts his actors and allows them to experiment with dialogues and scenes. When you're working with him, you learn a lot subconsciously, and that helped me in discovering the actor within.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.
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It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
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Every actor fears unemployment – even me.
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I'm an actor.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
