Yul Vazquez Quotes

I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind of concentration.

When you're playing a character, I think it's always better not to judge that character.

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

Scientology helps me in acting to focus on communication.

If I sit quietly in a corner waiting for the camera to roll, it doesn't mean that I am aloof and cut off from people. It could be that I am thinking about the shot or going over my lines.

I don't read articles about myself. I try to distance myself from it. Reading about yourself is nice, but in the long run, it doesn't help. Concentration has to be in the right place.

It's good to mind about things but not to give it too much weight, because there are some things you cannot change.

I have learned in boxing to separate emotion from your job and the time in the ring. When it comes to anything that causes an emotional trigger I try to clear my head.

I know I perform best when I stay calm.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working.

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.

My job is to act, so I just focus on that.

Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.

The characters I portray are an extension of what I've seen, heard, or read, and so what you see in my films are how I understand life.

To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.

Every actor is great in his own right but certain actors suit certain roles.

When I was younger, I used to think ahead too much, and that would make me lose concentration in the match I was playing.

I don't really think about the crowd when I am in the middle. I actually forget about the crowd, forget the money; that's exactly what I always do.

My character in 'OK OK' has a lot of attitude, and it is an interesting one.

I cannot do a better job than a journalist. I cannot do a better job than politicians - what I can do is play my football.

In Partho's comedy, 'Ami Montri Holam,' I am a minister. This is basically a play and a great actor like Jahor Roy had essayed this role years back. I hope I can deliver five per cent of what he did.