Robert de Niro is my favourite actor.
I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.
My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.
I would play the lead role in films which have scripts that suit me.
No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.
I'm not really a sequel guy. I did 'Angels & Demons' after 'The Da Vinci Code,' because I like working with Hanks, and I felt it was a really different sort of world that we were visiting. That was, of itself, interesting.
I've always loved Don Cheadle and Jeffery Wright and even Sam Jackson.
I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.
When I was doing theatre in Mumbai, actors won't come because they had television. For many years, I did theatre religiously and in Mumbai, I saw people disrespecting it and it hurt me very badly.
It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
I'd love to work with Rachel McAdams, because she's a great actress.
I'd jump to do a film with Aamir Khan. Aamir thinks through things before starting a project.
When I was a kid I really loved Humphrey Bogart. But when I was in theater school, Robert DeNiro was my go-to guy.
If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.
I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.
I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.
Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
Well I'm partial to a bit of Tom Hardy.
I think I have specialised in comedy movies. And people have liked me in them.
I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.
First of all, I would shoot myself if I ever had to play straight-forward characters that really don't have much of a past. Maybe it's just that I'm not a good enough actor to have to embellish, but I like having these really, really rich roles to play.
I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.
I would say that a lot of the characters I've been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in 'The Fighter,' not so much in 'The Master' - I think those are different.
Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.
If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.
