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As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.
It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.
True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.
I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link.
I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor.
The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.
At first, like every other actor, I wanted to do characters with deep traits - what we call 'serious characters.'
Luckily, I've had the chance to perform with some of the best actors in Pakistan, who helped me out a lot on set.
The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
I heard I am one of the most representative bachelor actors of Korea with Kang Dong Won, So Ji Sub, and Hyun Bin.
I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the Marine Corps.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
I now hate actors that blink too much on screen. When people blink, I turn the movie off. So I don't blink at all.
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.
I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.
If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the camera.
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
Every actor, male or female, is paid what he or she is worth. There is no inflated sum or underpaying in the industry.
How often do we get to go to the biggest cinemas in the world and see diverse actors make up the majority of the cast?
If I want to be remembered, I want to be known as a good actor. As times change, we, as actors, need to adapt with it.
For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.
I absolutely love doing comedy, however, of course as an actor, I would love the opportunity to do more dramatic roles.
My dear friend Randeep Hooda says I am more a unionist than an actor. I reminded him I was a star and not just an actor.
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
I'm committed to jumping into roles, worlds, and stories that historically actors who look like me have been left out of.
If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.
I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
I am a humongous Mohanlal fan. I adore the actor. I am also a huge Mammootty fan, and that's not being diplomatic at all.
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
Some actors just have a quality, a way of combining music and character and story, where everything just falls into place.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.