Demetrius Shipp Jr. Quotes

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

Even in between takes, you emerge yourself. So you don't have a life for six months.

What I do on film is part of my profession.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.

I'm just so used to music videos or live TV, so to really see something that's scripted and you have to do it over and over again to get every angle - it's fascinating to me. I would love to do a little acting.

Radha Krishna Sir, the director of 'Jil,' had seen 'Madras Cafe' and liked my acting in it. He wanted a performer and so got me on board.

Stage is all real; it's just as honest except it's bigger. I love stage, I love TV and film, so I think I'll just keep exploring and try to keep a really full picture.

In TV, you get so many different opportunities, and especially, you get to try something different you don't get to do as a normal person, then great.

I play the leading lady in Arjun Rampal's latest production, 'Daddy'. It's a very bold, performance-oriented role, and the team had originally cast someone else. However, when Arjun saw my performance in 'Kaaka Muttai,' he roped me in.

There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.

I am open to doing comedies, romantic stories, and commercial cinema, but it has to work for me so that I can give a year of my life in making it.

I'm out there to produce the best content - The most creative content I can do and express myself through wrestling.

I've always loved the collaborative side of filmmaking, and there's a lot of things I can do in the acting side of things in terms of the creating of action sequences, and coming up with ways of doing things with a stunt coordinator.

I felt that I should become a film actress first, and then come back to serials and earn good remuneration from it.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

Doing a series of 'Facejacker' takes about nine months. It's pretty intense.