Allu Arjun Quotes

Once you actually book the role, you see that people have faith in your ability to portray the character.

I might just be way too boring to ever be a really great actress.

I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.

What actually happened with 'Miracle' was that someone saw me in 'Jurassic Park' and said, 'We want someone with a white beard - how about him?' I've got a round face, white hair, a white beard. I can wear half-moon glasses and waddle a little, cope with a cane, raise my hat.

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

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

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

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

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

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.