Quotes About Acting

Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.

In our community, we are encouraged to take up professions like medicine or engineering that offer consistency and job security. Acting is not a 'real' profession.

When we were graduating from college, my dramatics professor Frank Thakurdas called me to his house and said, 'Satish, you're capable of doing a lot of things in life, but you should become a professional actor.' I told him that I am not a good-looking guy, how will I become an actor?

I think proficiency in language helps greatly with acting.

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.

Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program.

There are only a handful of really good TV programmes, and I'm blessed to be in one of them.

My father was a television director and producer, working on documentaries and current affairs programmes including 'Panorama,' and I didn't think he'd find acting a sensible option. But as soon as I'd finished my A-levels, I got on a train to Edinburgh, and that was it.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.

I didn't come to L.A. thinking, okay, I'm going to be an actor, so my progression was just kind of organic, starting in print modeling, which I was far less successful in, then acting in television commercials.

'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.

For me acting is a passion and an art, and always will only be that. I don't have any rules when it comes to acting. I'll do anything. But it depends on the script. Either I'll have passion for the project or I won't. It's got to fuel me.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.

Some people, they have the energy and projection that is good for theater. I don't have that.

I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.