Michael Horse Quotes

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second.

Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.

I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.

I think early in my career, I didn't choose films that were crappy films, necessarily, but I didn't go out and campaign for smaller, better roles.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.

Now, I am perfectly willing to just enjoy my career by choosing roles simply because I consider them to be a challenge and doing the best possible job I can.

As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.

As an actor, you're continually riding the waves of whether you're in or out, getting work or not getting work, and Kazan was really a guy who was condemned into not working and looking to go deep into someplace and just live inside his art.

I think it's really important, as an actor in this business, to have another creative outlet.

Any time you work for Aaron Sorkin, your life as an actor is drastically improved.

I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

There were offers to do 'Tum Bin 2' and 'Tum Bin 3' but then it would have been the same kind of franchise films which I think limit an actor.

A newcomer needs to be careful as to what kind of role they choose. If you choose something different, you will end up getting typecast. That's why I chose to play a character my age, to keep my options open for the future.

Post-'Pellichoopulu,' I received a lot of offers from Tamil industry. I decided I won't do a Tamil film unless I know the language. If I want to do it, I wanted to do it perfectly.

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

I want to do something that is meaningful. After working for all these years, I want to do better as an actor now and choose roles that are challenging and satisfying.

I'm always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of work that I'm doing.

I want to have a lengthy career. I want to play interesting characters. I want to tell beautiful stories, complex stories, deep stories.

I am making a conscious effort to ensure that my acting potential gets tapped in every project I do.