William Fichtner Quotes

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

I'd love to get into one of Tyler Perry's movies - play a little role, have a little character. I don't care. But more than two lines! More than two words!

I want to become a Hollywood film star. I genuinely would love to be in some movies.

Actually, I had a really nice part in that movie [Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains]. I mean, I have, like, one second in the final-cut version, where I say "You're fired" to Diane Lane. That's about all you see of me.

It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.

I started modeling and after a while the photographer Bruce Weber introduced me to Joel Schumacher, who cast me in my first film, and I just fell in love.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

'The Wicker Man' for me, as an actor, was definitely the best film I've ever done.

I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.

I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role.

I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.

Gene Kelly was a little tough, and he used to yell at me on the set.

Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

When I did 'Crash,' to be honest with you, it was just another acting job. I just wanted to do as good as I possibly could.

'Cuckoo's Nest' came along, and I was cast, and that was great, but it was my first film, so I felt like I was kind of walking around on the set as Walk-On A.

'Heaven's Gate' I remember, because it was the first movie I ever was cast in.

I was very lucky that my first film, 'The Blind Side,' I worked with Sandra Bullock.

One of the first things I ever did was 'Critical Condition.' That was before 'Full House.' It was a Richard Pryor movie. I didn't have a giant part, but I was in it throughout. I loved the heck out of it.

I used to assist my chachaji in his artificial jewellery business. One day, I got the opportunity to visit V. Shantaram's film set to supply some jewellery. Curiosity got the better of me and before I knew it, I was playing an extra. Soon, roles with dialogues followed and the rest as they say, is history.

After a three-month course in acting, I bagged my first film 'Suraksha' - opposite actor Suniel Shetty.

It wasn't until 2013 that I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do from six, but I didn't know how to get there other than working really hard and going to New York and doing theater like I saw on the bios of some of my favorite actors.

'Baazigar' was the movie which initiated my drift towards acting.

I remember typing up my dissertation sitting in a horse box - I didn't qualify for a caravan - on a set in Pinewood on my first film, 'Still Crazy.'