Barun Sobti Quotes

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

Casting is a big deal.

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

I've always believed that it's the film that chooses the actor and not the other way round.

If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'

Some people work very closely with a director or a producer on something, and from the get go, they're collaborating. But typically, it's just go in for an audition, do the best you can, and if the phone rings a couple of days after the audition and you get the part, that's great.

An actor has to embody a role.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

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

Casting is storytelling.

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

We had this neighbor who was an actor, and he was going to an audition one day, driving by our house, and he asked if I wanted to tag along. He was reading for the part of the father, and they were reading for the part of the son the same day, and he told me to sneak in there and make it look like I knew what I was doing.

I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.

I auditioned for Roosevelt in 'The Winds of War,' but Ralph Bellamy got the role.

For most actors, it is the script that chooses them and not the other way around.

Roles should choose an actor and not vice versa.

As an actor I am prepared for every role, that's my profession.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

If you're an actor, go out and act.

I don't think I auditioned for 'Ghostbusters II'.

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.