Mammootty Quotes

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

I have done so many films in which either I have been the main lead or part of the supporting cast.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.

I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.

I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them.

Getting those parts in the Christopher Guest movies was the second biggest helper to my career after 'Fernwood.'

'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.

Terry Malick offered me three parts in 'The Thin Red Line.' I was busy shooting other movies while he asked me the first two.

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

I played a biker in one of my earliest films in Telugu, 'Mr Perfect.'

I have done serious roles in various films including 'Budget Padmanabhan,' 'Thaththi Thavudhu Manasu,' among others.