Sydney Pollack Quotes

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

When I made my debut as an actor in 'Rock On!' I was confident to get in front of the camera.

I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.

I was in a movie called 'Flirting With Disaster' with Ben Stiller. I realized that I am really not a good actor and not something I wanted to pursue.

In films, maybe I was lost or typecast.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.

I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.

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

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.

'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

When I did 'Clockers,' I didn't even think about having a career in acting, I just thought, 'Wow, this is cool. I get to do a little movie.'

'The Bank Job,' for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?

I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on the back of 'The Irish Times,' and I went along for an audition, very pragmatically, to see if I could do it or not.

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.