Saqib Saleem Quotes

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.