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I am growing with my audience. When I made my debut, I was 24, and they have grown up with me. They are with me with each choice of mine.
I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.
[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.
I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
Kolkata is special. I have been privileged to spend time in the city and make some great friends there. I like to go there whenever I can.
People have different ideas of who I am. And I think because I'm very private, people make up the strangest ideas of who and why and what.
For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.
One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style
A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.
My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control.
As a practice exercise, I'd usually just wear blindfolds around the house to allow my other senses to take me wherever I would like to go.
When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.
Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
As anyone who even remotely knows me, I will eat chicken with some chicken, and maybe more chicken. Chicken done any which way, basically.
I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.
I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.
Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.
Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.
I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I've made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.
Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.
One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.
I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.
courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" "A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life
Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?
I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.
There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.
Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable.
I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.
Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.
If you go to my Netflix, the sections that they recommend are 'Thrillers with a Strong Female Lead,' 'Comedies With a Strong Female Lead.'
Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.
I have had some good fortune in the world of television. I have had it late in life after many youthful struggles and a change of careers.
Maybe some people have been turned off of me because I take what I'm doing pretty seriously, and I don't feel the need to charm everybody.
People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.
I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low
Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?
'Once Upon A Time In America' is one of the cleverest films of all time, because you can get out of it whatever you want to get out of it.
Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.
I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.