Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn't lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.

To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.

It was fun in its own way, but I think 'Dahmer' was ultimately one of the most rewarding experiences of my life and my career.

I just want to keep getting roles that challenge me to be the best actor and the best person I can be.

I want to attack and to lead my life with vigor, but I'm in the watching stage at the moment. Younger actors feel pressure to bring a pop to every scene; as the roles get bigger, I'm finding you can add layers and do less scene-to-scene.

I want to do something that is meaningful. After working for all these years, I want to do better as an actor now and choose roles that are challenging and satisfying.

I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

It's cool because, as you get older, you get offered older parts. You're older, so you can't play 10 anymore. That was always very exciting for me.

When you're playing a character for 10 years, it can challenge you less than it did at the beginning, so it was exciting to take on some new shoes. Especially with Erich Blunt, because being a tech wizard wasn't something I thought I would do after Harry Potter.