William Sanderson Quotes

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

For me, it all started with 'Phoonk' around 2008 and then I landed a couple of more films and then came 'Makkhi.'

My journey has been that of a character actor.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.

I think 'Humans' has massively improved me as an actor.

You can never write off a good actor, look at Arshad Warsi, one 'Munna Bhai' and he's back in business.

I used my television phase to save myself as an actor for the bigger screen.

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

'Baazigar' was the movie which initiated my drift towards acting.

I have proved my skills as an actress who can perform both character and glamour roles and 'Uyir' would take me to greater heights.

Looking at the actors I most admire - Judi Dench, Ian Holm, that whole generation - they all started in rep and slowly built themselves into the position where they could juggle theatre and film.

I'm kind of at the mercy of writers out there. I need a writer out there who wants to write a vehicle for me. Do it and get it to me immediately. I do want to be a lead. I want to play a lead role in a movie.

My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun.

I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

I never decided I wanted to be an actor. I just started doing standup because I love standup. Everything else has sort of been these tiny steps leading to this.

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that.

I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.

I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, to begin with, in the 1980s, it was all character acting. And then when, by fluke, through 'Four Weddings', I got into doing lead parts, it's a completely different thing.

I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.

I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.

When I began my journey in films, I never thought I'd be playing the lead in my films and was keen to move ahead with roles that give me scope to act.

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