Abhimanyu Singh Quotes

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

There's only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. 'GoldenEye' was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that.

It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.

You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.

I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.

Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it.

What matters is how good you are in the screen space you get.

There's a fine line between lead actor and supporting actor.

I can't do a film where I appear in a song and then disappear.

People liked my performances in 'Kill Dill' and 'Happy Ending,' but I was hardly there in them.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.

I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it.

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

My first movie role was a supporting performance in a Canadian film called 'Final Lady.' It was a great opportunity for me at the time.

When I was playing Bishop, I would always walk on set thinking, 'This is my show; this is a show all about me.'

I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while.

When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.

I don't believe in terminologies like 'lead role' or 'supporting role' or 'cameo role,' etc.