I have had people telling me that they liked my screen presence and my voice, so I guess that's my strength.
Al Pacino never looks like he's being filmed.
Nic Hoult is just such a brilliant actor.
Of course I was excited to be working opposite Irrfan, but I didn't feel the urge to scream 'Oh my god!' or behave like a fan-girl. If he's an actor then so am I. Having said this, he is an incredible actor and has tremendous screen presence.
I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.
I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.
Watching Sridevi emote was an experience. She was very quiet on the sets. But once in front of the camera, all her energy would be unleashed.
How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.
Urvashi is a fabulous actor.
Antonia Bernath is a sensational actress, a really, really fantastic girl.
With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
As far as Lauryn Canny's performance as 'Darlin', it was just so incredibly nuanced and raw and and she's such a hypnotizing person to watch on screen.
Oh yes, Irrfan Khan is an amazing actor who is both focused and funny on the set.
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.
You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.
I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.
Ranbir has the ability to be a natural in front of the camera. There is nothing artificial about him. When I watch him on screen, I always feel that he is not acting. And I see this quality only in him among my contemporaries. I am a big Ranbir Kapoor fan.
Oh, I loved John Wayne. He was just so charming and easy to work with.
There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.
On the show, you have to be more charismatic, a little smoother, but I think I can still be that prince of darkness. You just have to learn the tricks of the TV trade as well.
Everything that Michael Fassbender touches is elevated.
