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I was never hungry for this kind of attention; it was the love of performing that got me interested in acting.
Ironically India is the hub of animation outsourcing, but our own productions have been anything but fabulous.
I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.
I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.
I'm the guy doing calisthenics. I'm doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person.
By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.
It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.
I'm getting some really good work. And because I'm delivering what they want, more good work is coming my way.
You do a good job in something, and that's your box for a minute. It's up to you to keep reimagining that box.
The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.
For all the yoga I do (and I do plenty), I also love the time I spend jogging. It gets me in sync with myself.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
People have recognized me sometimes but not much. I'm glad my life isn't too different. I don't want it to be.
Whenever I'm doing any film, I'm always just happy to have a job and I always just put 110% of myself into it.
I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit.
Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.
Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.
When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.
It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?
It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.
A lot of my fighting qualities I inherited from my parents. They set tremendous examples right through my life.
Very rarely have I had the opportunity to say lines which I would have said even if I wasn't working in a film.
You can't just come up with an idea for a game and stick the drama on top. It all has to be one driving thrust.
I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.
Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.
All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
We are your brothers, your daughters, your friends. We just happened to have been wrapped in a smaller package.
I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.
I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.
No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'
I got to work with Jared Leto. Jared's cute. Oh, I'll tell you. Jared will make you doubt about your sexuality.
It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.
You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.
I have had this interesting love affair with London and England, though I don't know how London feels about me.
I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.
A good Traceur trains until he/she gets it right. An excellent Traceur trains until he/she cannot get it wrong.
Never aim to be proactive with your day. That way, if you end up getting stuff done, you’re never disappointed.
I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.
I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.
Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.
I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.
Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.