Sudeep Quotes

Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

I would hate to be a bitter, aging actor.

I don't want to be 45 years old and have been a hot actor when I was 33 and have people going, 'Whatever happened to Fishburne?'

As I've gotten older, the parts have diminished. I liked it when I was younger, I could always play the lead in the movie and I could do all the romantic scenes with the women, and it was fun and I liked to play that. Now, I'm older and I'm reduced to playing the backstage doorman or the uncle or something. I don't really love that so occasionally, when a part comes up, I'll play it.

I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.

I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.