I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.
The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if they're painters, you don't necessarily see them, or if they're actors, you see the role they're playing. In political life, you see women of enormous courage and smarts and humor, and that releases the talent, especially in little girls who are watching.
The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.
I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.
After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.
During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that actors don't see. When you have one job, that's all you care about, that's all you're supposed to focus on. But focusing on so many different things, I was introduced to how hard everyone else works too.
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.
As an actor. . . at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.
The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.
It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.
When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved. . . But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.
Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.