Barret Oliver Quotes

As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor.

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

Though I was aware that the success rate in film industry was one percent and how difficult it was to survive, I wanted to try my luck as an actor.

If there's a role on a TV show for me, I'll take it. If there's a role in a movie, I'll take it. I just wanna act. That's all it comes down to.

I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Being just an actor would be quite frustrating.

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

There was a time when I really wanted to do films, but they didn't come my way. I would come close and the next day suddenly I'd realise that I am not a part of the film anymore. So that's how television happened.

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.

As an actor, you need to smile all the time, which is not easy.

If you want to be real about it, the fact that any actor books a job is a one-in-a-million shot. I've been so fortunate to have worked on even a few films, so, no, I don't wake up feeling bad.

All my life, I struggled to get roles.

I don't have any ego, and I will go and audition for parts if I'm offered an interesting script.

My career has been a roller coaster ride. And every actor experiences that phase.

I want to do more Tollywood projects but I don't go around asking for roles.

When you're an actor, it's really great to be busy - that's what we all want!

After 'Raees,' I used to wonder how I'd feel working on another film and to do this and still enjoy it - I know now I like acting; I enjoy it.

Millions of people come every day to Mumbai to fulfill their acting dreams. Being one of them is always tough.