Quotes About Acting

For me, the content and the character that I play are the two most important factors.

Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Failure of a film doesn't diminish my love for acting.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.

'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

As an actor, you don't want to say, 'I'm going to be loud and big.' Because that looks awful; that looks fake.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.

I don't want to fake anybody out and make them think I'm a great actress.

I always felt like I was kind of faking it. I wasn't sure how to create a character. I wasn't sure how to carry a 20-episode show.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

I have always been kind of really good at faking the sick voice, and I never really realized it because I would never use that power for evil.

It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.

Acting has been my life since I was five, and everything has just fallen into place. I've never had to push and shove.

I started doing theatre with Satyadev Dubey at Prithvi and I had to start from scratch. I had fallen in love with the craft of acting by then.

I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me.