Actor Quotes
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I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.
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The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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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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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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I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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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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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she’s sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can’t get a job.
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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.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
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I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.
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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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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.
