In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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MADHUR MITTAL You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've be... KEANU REEVES That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries i... ELISABETH HARNOIS In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected m... IRVIN KERSHNER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Nawazuddin Siddiqui is the best actor because his choice of roles are so diametrically opposite from... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan ... BEN STILLER I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. ... DANIEL BOULUD When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted t... LESLI LINKA GLATTER I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been hel... 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EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that... CARRIE PRESTON There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian chara... KIMIKO GLENN I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't neces... IRA SACHS I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I th... BEN SCHNETZER I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y... DAVID CRONENBERG 'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't hav... CHRISTOPHER GUEST I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibl... GARY HUME It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got... JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o... TOM CRUISE It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intel... DAN STEVENS In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache... IDRIS ELBA Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have... DONNA SUMMER 'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I wa... JAMES GANDOLFINI That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you ... AARON PAUL Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, ... LINDSEY VONN As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought... LIN SHAYE For me, shooting films and breaking into Hollywood are just like gambling. For an actor, good script... CHOW YUN-FAT I'm really a big fan of HBO and Showtime shows, so I wouldn't mind being on an edgy show... ... RANDY WAYNE One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't a... MICHAEL SHANNON In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film yo... JUDI DENCH If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge,... GABRIEL E. GOMEZ Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an i... RANI MUKERJI As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have... HUGH JACKMAN I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. AMITABH BACHCHAN I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that... BILLY CAMPBELL That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ... TED DEMME Everybody doesn't get to do each and every film. I don't compete with others; I compete with... DEEPIKA PADUKONE An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but le... ALLISON JANNEY I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-no... DAX SHEPARD As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it. BECK BENNETT But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as... 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