Art Malik Quotes

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

I am no glamorous prop waiting to be presented as a showpiece in a film. Filmmakers have to look beyond that.

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.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

I'm actually just an actor.

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

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.

What people forget is that I'm an actress. That's the wonderful thing about what I do. I get to play different roles.

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

A movie will live or die with your casting.

As an actress, you have to be very naive.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

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.

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

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?'

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

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.