Rodney Atkins Quotes

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.

Have I met Justin Timberlake? I have! I've been to his house.

I was really interested in meeting Peter Coyote.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

I saw Al Pacino on the street once. That made me very nervous.

I think the time when I really got freaked out was when Tom Hardy came up to me and said 'Scarlett, can I have a photo?'

Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me!

My wildest tipping point moment came when I was introduced to Clint Eastwood. He was sitting there, typical Clint Eastwood, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, holding a Budweiser. He looks at me and says, "I watch your show from time to time." I just stopped. I was like, "I can't even think about that. I'm not even sure if I'm happy about that."

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

I actually went to Wimbledon, and David Attenborough was sat in the row in front of me, and I thought that was quite amazing. That's insane, isn't it? He's, like, a proper person.

I want Priyanka Chopra to do my biopic. I think she is very good and lovely. Priyanka would be the ideal actress to play my part.

I was introduced to Amitabh Bachchan by Ram Gopal Varma. He said 'Hello Sudeep' and I just said 'Hi, sir.'

He was just Dad. But it's hard to deny who he was when you're brought out on stage, and you're standing beside this great man singing at the end of a show, and the crowd loves him.

One time, I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.

I'm not as extreme in real life as I am in the ring or on television.

Of course, I love the arenas; there's a great deal of energy and excitement playing those kind of shows. But there's something that's very intimate and very special about a small venue, where you really feel like you're almost getting to know everyone in the audience.

I really like to do small venues. They're more intimate.

In showbiz one minute you're up there making thousands of people laugh, next minute you're picking up toffees, you know it's real life.

When Arjen Robben introduced himself to me, I just couldn't believe it. I mean, I didn't think it was the real guy.

For me, stardom means when people know your name when you appear on screen.

When Aamir Khan was in Haryana, we met him and he was very respectful to my parents.

Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.

I might play characters that are loud in the movies, but in real life, I'm not loud in terms of personality.