Actor's Reputation Quotes

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.

No actor has a flawless career, but in the long term, I'd like my name to be synonymous with good quality.

I continue to be known as a guy that plays really complex, three-dimensional characters.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

I am playing a superhero for kids, and I don't want them to think I'm some dirty fool.

It happens to people. People ruin things they love! I'm sure the guy who played Jar Jar Binks loved 'Star Wars.'

People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of rich assholes. That's what I'm normally seen as, you know.

I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often - dull.

In England, I'm known for playing villains.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

Since two of my films of 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' series worked, people think I am good in such roles.

I think once you get noticed as an actor you get roles irrespective of the characters you portray.

I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.

I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.

After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment.

I did theatre when it was not considered prudent for film actors to be seen on stage.

I realized that I need to protect my films because the director will move on, the producer will move on too, but as an actor I will be considered a flop if things will not work.

I think people were a little nervous to work with me to start with, because the movies I've done they thought that I wouldn't be able to control myself at all. I'd have to blow up the cars or something like that, and I think also people are scared of working sometimes with feature directors, because they feel like you're not going to listen to their opinions.