Rishi Kapoor Quotes

I'd say that I'm super proud of only four or five things I've done, but mostly I'd like to be remembered as a really good actor who people enjoyed watching.

I love Mike Winters. He's such a great actor.

I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

I think I have the finest body of work of any American actor.

I am happy that I am getting roles to prove my acting calibre.

I've been a huge fan of Kate Winslet, and have watched all her films. She is such a solid actor and I look up to her.

I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as an actor in a way that Jake Gyllenhaal, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep do.

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

Everyone's amazed by the question that how did I succeed as an actor in the industry, which has Kamal Haasan? It's because I grew as an actor watching Kamal's acting.

Will Smith's acting reaffirms my belief in the American perfection.

I love Octavia Spencer. I love what she has to say as a human, and I love her career and the variety of characters she has played.

I'd rather be called a good actor than be labelled a good-looking guy. I have been working towards it all along, and I hope to be able to go far ahead, because that's my foremost goal.

I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.

How long can you bank on your body and your face to help you get roles in films? At the end of the day, anyone who wants to be known as an actor wants to be appreciated for his/her work.

Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me a 'character actor,' I fail to understand what it means.

My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.

I've never taken an acting lesson in my life, and it's not my chosen profession, so I'm flattered when people say I can do it and give me props for doing it.

In the end, only a good actor stands out; if I am not a good actor, I won't stand out.

I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

I want to be remembered for a body of work so that when the next guy comes up, he could think of Sterling K. Brown in the same way that I think of Andre Braugher and James Earl Jones.