On-Screen Appearances Quotes

I made my acting debut in 1996.

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.

Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for, like, a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

I've wanted to act since I was seven. The year before, I'd been a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz' and was overcome with terror. The next year I just watched. My sister was in 'The Little Mermaid' and I had this deep knowing that I needed to be there on stage, not in the audience.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of my size and my background, it seemed like I was right for just about anything.

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

I came to Mumbai for my internship in advertising in an ad agency. Back then, a senior from my college who was working for Balaji asked whether I wanted to act. I agreed, and I didn't even know when it became my passion and my hobby.

I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.

I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"

My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they were sort of boring, because I've seen them on tape; they always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair.

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

I have done more than 250 films.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

I've feel like I've been doing TV shows most of my life.

I was in a play called 'Hood.' I was an extra in 'Passion of the Christ.' I did corporate videos, commercials, little university short films. Just anything that I could be a part of, really.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster.

Before I did any television or film, I did years and years of theater. Television and film stuff, even though it went on for a good, healthy number of years, almost felt like a diversion from theater.