Tahar Rahim Quotes

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

I'm an actor more than anything else.

I'm a real actress.

I'm an actor. It's my job.

My face couldn't play Jewish.

I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.

I am not a comedian, I am an actor.

I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians.

I'm predominately an actor first.

All I had growing up was like 'Aladdin,' maybe I could be animated - or terrorist roles.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I think of myself as an actor.

In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.