Del Shores Quotes

We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.

I wrote 'Aadukalam' keeping Dhanush in mind. As an actor, he delivers exactly what I need and sometimes more.

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

I don't consider myself a good actor.

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.

I always knew my mom was a good actress.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.

If they didn't call you a tough guy, then what else would they call you? Something worse than that? I'm playing parts, and if they call you that, it's because I played the part right.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.

When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.