Quotes About Acting

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

I never planned to be an actress.

I never planned to act in Malayalam. 'Yakshiyum Njanum' just happened and everything else just followed.

I never planned to become an actor.

I have never planned my acting career and was never ambitious.

Acting happened to me incidentally, I never planned.

I ended up acting in two films with a tonsured head without even planning for it!

I always wanted to be a fashion designer, for as long as I can think of. Acting happened by chance, so I call it beginner's luck, actually. I am planning to carry on for as long as I can.

I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.

I had said bye-bye to acting, in a way, but once an actor, always an actor. Life has got other plans for me. Like, I did not want to be an actor - I wanted to be an architect or astronaut - and 'Daddy' happened, and the rest is history.

I have stopped making career plans; they never seem to work out for me. So, I'm going with the flow, enjoying each day of being an actor.

When I was acting, I did not have any directorial plans in my mind then. But I did not enjoy acting as much as directing.

Mv wife opened a gift shop and I had a cleaning plant. We both lost money on them. I guess we'll stick to acting.

Don't think I'm always nice. I know that's how I've been cast... If they want me to be mean, I can step up to the plate more easily than I would like to admit, as my children will tell you.

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.

Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do.

OTT platforms have opened up a whole new area to explore in terms of content, writing, acting, everything. But I'm not really very comfortable with the four-letter cuss words in all languages, which are now used liberally; I'm a bit old school.

I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

Only a genius can play a fool.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

I am happy to play the bad man.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.