I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor and I would be accepted.
If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.
Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.
Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.
Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.
I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life.
'Love Sonia' is very lucky for my career; I owe a lot to it. If I have a 'Batla House,' 'Super 30,' it's only because of 'Love Sonia.'
I hope to be acting until I am 90.
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
No actor in the world started off at the top.
I have been in Los Angeles for a long time, and I have wanted to be a series lead for a long time. It's literally on my bucket list.
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.
A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.
I've been blessed to play these great parts that just open another door and another door, is I guess how it's worked.
It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.
I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.
As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.
Mohan Babu garu is one great actor who has withstood so many obstacles over the last 42 years.
I am as curious about my daughter's acting debut as the rest of the world. I think Alia has got the best possible debut under the biggest banner. But it's not going to be easy for her to go from the first to the second film smoothly.
