Quotes About Performance

Genuinely, the first gig I did when I was 18, it felt like the world shifted. I realised that I had stumbled upon a mechanism through which you could view life.

My first show was in Patkar Hall next to Bombay Hospital. It was a total flop. I was so nervous standing in front of all those people that I completely froze. I forgot all my lines and the audience booed me off the stage. I realised that day that you have to earn the audience's appreciation. They aren't fools.

All of us play different roles in our chosen career. I play the role of an actor. But I realised I am also an actor apart from various roles I play in my personal life.

I have realised that when you start thinking like the person you are playing, it gets easy to emote.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.

Lately, I have realised that when you play at the highest level, you have to play according to what the team demands.

After my first play, I realised that comedy was my forte - rather than being a dukhi heroine, I would rather do comedy.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

I can guarantee this to you: every single actor has had a dream of walking on stage on press night and realising that they don't know their lines.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.

There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.

I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

I would love to do realistic films that are entertaining.

With realistic and deglamourised roles and live sound, the charisma of a star is not enough. Can you be many different people?

I like to lean on making wrestling the most believable, realistic form of entertainment as possible for the most part.

Everyone will expect me to score in every game, which probably isn't realistic, but I'll go out trying to do that.