Clark Gregg Quotes

'Friends With Benefits': it feels like a two-hander to me, but it is a big movie, and this is the first straightforward male I've been able to play. I would describe my character in 'The Social Network' as a kind of sociopath. I would describe my character in 'Bad Teacher' as... just a weirdo. But this is a male's male.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

I would love to take a crack at 'Long Day's Journey Into Night.'

I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting.

My job is to act, whether in indie or mainstream films.

Picking up 'A Gentleman' was pretty easy. It had everything that I like watching in a film. And it has everything that audiences like to see me doing.

For 'Rangbaaz,' I had put on weight to play the gangster and for '83,' I had to lose all that weight.

In Sarileru... my role duration was 15 minutes. Since I knew the scope I didn't mind it.

Well, I am a Malayali and I know the kind of expectations my fans have about my films. That, for me, is the biggest award. So I try and pick roles that I hope viewers will like. Malayalis want actors to be subtle in their acting and they enjoy realism.

My character in 'Saaho' is completely contrasting to my character in 'Baahubali,' and I am quite excited about it.

I'd love to play a lead in the theatre.

One thing that brings me great, great joy is reading the reviews of 'Civil War' and seeing the much deserved credit that Chris Evans is getting for his performance as Captain America.

I've always identified as an actor. That's what I set out to do.

Although I played a cop in 'Jatt & Juliet 2,' it was a comic role, so playing a serious cop with an important role in 'Udta Punjab' was a change.

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's lifestyle is great because all the groupies have to go through the roadies to get to the rock stars. It's not necessarily true.

People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a combination of right time, right place and having certain genes or a gimmick or whatever, but it's really not anything more than sugar. It tastes good and goes away fast.

I think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I'm going to play it. That's about it.

I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.

Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".

Marvel's really smart about continuing the storylines of all the different movies from Ultron into this one and blah to blah to blah - it's pretty seamless. So where we left off in Ultron is definitely picked up in Cap 3 here, pretty smoothly I think.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.