You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.
There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.
I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.
You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself.
Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar
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.
To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.
Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.
My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?
I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.
I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.
I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.
I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.
I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.
Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.
Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.
