Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics.

Being a TV actor, I have done many roles. Working daily at times gets to you.

Though both films and television sell emotions, let's not deny that it's way more challenging for small-screen actors to earn their respect.

I like to play Gandhi, but I've got tired of it, though not bored of it. I have to go through the physicality of losing weight.

Unfortunately, I was branded as a glamour actress and was forced to do only glamour roles.

When you're an aspiring actor, you do so many self-tapes that it gets to a certain point where you have to develop a thick skin, otherwise you will never survive.

When you do action stuff and sci-fi stuff, you have a lot to hide behind - the hair and the makeup and the special effects. But when you play a normal girl, it's challenging because you have to trust yourself.

I love watching the superhero movies, and I would love to make one. But in a way, 'Drive' is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.

I've always liked horror films, but I have discovered that shooting for scenes in which you play a spirit is not easy.

As actors, we exhaust ourselves emotionally and physically, which no one sees.

I don't envy young actors.

Promotions are insane! It's the toughest part about making a movie, for us actors at least.

I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

'Flying Jatt' is a superhero movie, and the villain needs to be really strong.

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.

I suppose, when you start up in acting, you hope to be given challenges, and you always have dreams about the things you could do and couldn't do, but normally we get pigeon-holed a little bit, as we go on in our careers.

I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.

It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

I have bullshit moments every once in a while - like every actor does.

Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.

I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.

I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.