Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.

If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.

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.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

The actors I admire are character actors.

I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.

To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Acting to me is always reacting.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I don't go for glamour roles.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

Acting is acting.

I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.