Christopher Fowler Quotes

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.

A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

I'm a character actor at heart.

Actors don't have real value.

I'm not in the business of trying to be a celebrity. I like entertaining and being in movies. I like when people leave a movie and talk about it with friends. My biggest struggle is the press... its an odd thing and something I've had to learn a lot about.

Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.

Actors love... at the end of the day, stars are actors. They love performing. And the more challenges I feel that you end up giving stars on the sets, the happier they are.

I love doing characters that surprise people and showing what I am, which is an actor, first and foremost.

Whenever I have really enjoyed being part of a film, it has worked well for me.

In Sarileru... my role duration was 15 minutes. Since I knew the scope I didn't mind it.

Stars are always bigger. They bring the audience to the theatres. More than that, they do a lot of work in a film, and they are always on top. I am in no way competing with them.

All actors may not be stars, but all stars are actors, and I can vouch for that.

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.

After six years of doing it, the weird thing on 'Towie' is that we can't explain to people that we're famous. We're doing a show where we have to act like normal people.

Sometimes on a soap, it can become about all this other stuff - the party circuit, reality shows - but I gravitated towards people who kept it all about the work.