I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things, but there are people who are way better at it than I am.
As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.
I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.
I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.
Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.
And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
I resisted being an actor for some time.
What does an actor know about politics?
I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.
I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
Being an international actor, I always had to keep moving.
That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so. ' I'm not a type. I'm an actor.
I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.
Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think thats a real gift.
I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks. . . and I cook in any language.
I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not how I learned to become an actor. Acting is creating a character.
The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.
One of the things I noticed about the world was - it's funny, in the movie business, you meet a kind of guy who has a lot of money, whether they came by it as an actor or film-studio owner, and you realize these people aren't any smarter than you might be, or any more decent than you might be. It's just this weird fate of the world that it broke one way for someone.