Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.
TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on the big screen.
The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.
I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.
Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.
Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error.
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.
And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
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 thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
