Words matter. These are the best Cameo Quotes from famous people such as Arfi Lamba, Oliver Platt, Govinda, Ronald Biggs, Matthew McGrory, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My role in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was a cameo, but it did expose me to cinema and took me to Cannes. I then did ‘Prague,’ which was a very niche film.
You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.
I was told by many well-wishers not to do the film because my role was just a cameo. But it’s very important to be part of big, successful films like ‘Holiday.’
The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, ‘cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.
Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.
I will reunite with Ananth Nag onscreen after a while for a cameo in Vijayalakshmi Singh’s ‘Yaanaa,’ which sees her launching her daughters.
In ‘Purab Aur Paschim’, Manoj Kumar offered me a meaningful cameo. He directed me efficiently and I was able to improve on my histrionics and appeared more confident in front of the movie camera.
‘The Movie’ is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.
I did a cameo in ‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha.’
When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in ‘The Green Hornet’ – as one of the drawings in Kato’s notebook – it clarifies what the film is: an unrealized sketch. A sketch can afford to allude to a point of view. Moviemakers need to show their point of view, something this shrug of a movie never gets around to doing.
My cameo appearance in ‘Happy New Year’ doesn’t mean I am seriously considering a shift to cinema, not at all.
‘X-Men 1’ – I did a cameo.
See, my relationship with Salman is of mutual love. But just because he is a good friend of mine, I wouldn’t want to use him for a cameo in my film or ask him to endorse my film. That is not me.
For me, even if it is a five-second cameo but one that makes a difference I will do it.
One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a ‘Pootie’ sketch, when she was melted over him like butter on an English muffin.
There’s a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn’t been married, he’d worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
I feel that, for each show I’ve been doing, there’s a character that dominates. Then in the next show it plays a smaller part, and then in the next it has a sort of cameo piece. So they all have their moment.
The old Rankin-Bass animated specials seemed to exist in a loosely shared reality, which is what attracted me to them. Santa, Snow Miser, Rudolph, Frosty, even the Easter Bunny seemed to be on nodding acquaintance with each other, even if only in cameo appearances in each other’s cartoons.
I’m very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don’t want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
Even if you only play a cameo in a film, it becomes a part of you and you get butterflies in your stomach on release day.
I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, ‘The Vampire Diaries.’ And I guest starred on a show called ‘Kickin’ It’ on Disney.
I want to be in ‘Glee’, but I’m told I’m not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
I have a cameo in every movie. In ’50/50,’ I’m in the back of the bus.
In fact, I only had a cameo role in ‘QH,’ but the writer and director sensed my talent and in Season 2 I was given Begum Sahiba’s role.
Generally, if a good script comes in I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn’t have to be anything – it doesn’t have to be the main character, it doesn’t have to be a huge part. It could be a nice cameo – anything that I think is good and surrounded by good, enthusiastic people.
When I saw rappers in the ’90s cameo in films – all of those ’90s rappers – it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
Be it a cameo, a character role or a lead role, I am happy that people are finally recognising my acting calibre and are casting me in their films.
I have no problems doing a song or a cameo. You never know what can bring success – just like the role I did in Buddhivanta.’
I don’t believe in terminologies like ‘lead role’ or ‘supporting role’ or ‘cameo role,’ etc.
Whenever I do something, particularly if it’s a cameo, I make sure that I have a backstory written out so that I can talk to the director intelligent and try to communicate a three-dimensional character.
