I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
My first movie role was a supporting performance in a Canadian film called 'Final Lady.' It was a great opportunity for me at the time.
I don't want to do a film where I have a ten minute role.
When you're not the lead on a series, you work intermittently, even if you're in every episode.
I don't want to be the 'spice' added to a show. I'm not a condiment!
When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.
Legends have composed music for Ambareesh anna's films during his illustrious career and it is a great honor to be able to do it for him in 'Ambi Ning Vysaitho,' as it is his film and doesn't just have him as a supporting actor.
I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.
From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.
I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.
There's only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. 'GoldenEye' was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that.
As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."
I thought it was a terrible idea being a supporting character on a football show.
I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
In 'Rakht Charitra,' I had equal screen space to that of the lead.
Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man.
I can't expect to be playing the lead and romancing heroines, so I'll do what I'm best suited for and I'm doing that happily.
If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.
I don't understand when people say character actors. You either have the protagonist or the antagonist and I've played both. It's an actor's role to play a character. Does that mean that main stream heroes and heroines are characterless?
I'm a character actor and that's what I do. All the roles that I've had have been mainly support roles, because character actors don't usually get the lead in movies. It rarely happens.
I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
