Pankaj Kapur Quotes

I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.

My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

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.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.

I hope I get the chance to keep acting in great projects.

I don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.

But I'm not, I'm legitimate, I'm a legitimate character actor of the theatre and film.

I still say I have no interest in being an actor - I just love acting.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I'm a journeyman actor.

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

I always wanted to be a great actor.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

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.