Russell Peters Quotes

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.

The Indian film industry is very, very vibrant. It is a mix like it is in Hollywood - there is a lot of highly commercial cinema.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

Johnny Depp is probably the best actor.

Indian cinema will continue to grow, I am very sure.

Ranbir Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt - they are all talented. Their work is making the industry better.

The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.

I don't think telly actors are inferior to Bollywood stars in any way.

One of the things that make actors good is their capacity to listen.

I would love to work with Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Abishek Bachchan and a lot more... even Imran Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Ranbir Kapoor are damn good with their acting.

Govinda is my favourite actor - his comedy and dance is unique.

I think Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, and Ranveer Singh are doing a fabulous job.

Among Indian actors I'm a big fan of Hrithik Roshan's.

I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.

I don't do anything keeping Bollywood in mind.

I get a lot of love from Delhiites. My producers tell me that my films do really well here.