Quotes About Acting

The whole acting thing is a buffet. One, in terms of role choice and movie choice, I like to do lots of different things, and I think that's the whole fun of it. But I also see it as a buffet in terms of the character.

One of the amazing things about acting now is that you can try different things and have choices.

I live to experience different things. Part of what I love about acting is to live the lives of others.

A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.

I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

Both are two different things. As a VJ, you are yourself. But as an actor, you are playing a character that you want people to fall in love with.

I am looking at acting in a different way now. I always looked at it as equity to build the other things I was doing; now, I consider it a career.

With acting, it's like you form chemistry with different people in different ways, so it's really added even more fun to work, you know?

People need to differentiate me from my roles.

On television, there isn't much scope to do different roles. I try to bring some new shades to my roles, and I try to play them differently. I think I have been able to manage that pretty well.

Any time you get to play or dress differently or look differently, as an actress, that's incredibly exciting.

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

One of the most difficult things I find as an actor is to laugh on cue. It is way harder than crying or other emotions. It's sometimes harder than yawning on cue.

People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play a character for a long period of time, and you get to dig deep. It's a home to go to.

If I can keep it light in between scenes, then that helps me dig down further than if I try and stay at that constant place all day. That's just me. Every actor's got their thing. But that's what I do.

I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.

A lot of the bad guys I've played just haven't had much dimension to them.

When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.