Albert Brooks Quotes

I was delighted when Ashutosh Gowariker offered me the role of 'Sakina Begum.'

Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'

I was shooting for 'Bobby Jasoos' when I was offered 'Khamoshiyan.'

Before I was cast for 'Brothers,' we all knew that Karan Johar was looking for an actress for to play a mother's role. I never thought that he would think of casting me.

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.

I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

I was out with my friends when a casting agent came up and asked me if I was interested in acting.

When 'Director's Kut' called me and asked to come for an audition, I went for it but there was no response for a couple of days. Then I got a chance to meet Rajan Shahi and discuss the character. I liked Pammi the moment I heard about the character.

I don't know why Kunal Kohli thought of me for 'Phir Se.' But he did. I got the role without any effort.

I was getting a lot of offers in Telugu when I was shooting for 'Oh My Friend' and 'Seventh Sense.'

I was offered Vicky Kaushal's role in 'Lust Stories,' which I had declined.

By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started 'Homeland'.

Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.'