Quotes About Acting

I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for 'Airplane!' for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, 'I don't like this kind of comedy.'

Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

I find the idea that some kids go into acting because of their parents butt-clenchingly embarrassing. I've gone out of my way to prove myself as a separate being. I don't want to be seen as a subset of someone else.

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

I treat acting as my job. I say that, as I have found there is a beauty in separating yourself from the world and from acting.

In the serial 'Kutumb,' I play a psychopath.

After 'Surya vs. Surya' I went on to do a TV serial 'Dahleez' and that got me busy.

I have a sense of humor and enjoyed playing the role of Daku-amma in the serial 'Gunwale Dulhaniya le Jayenge.'

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

I would love to act, but I seriously do not know anything about it.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

I didn't have the regular high school experience. My experiences were on sets.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

Growing up as a child actress, I was tutored on movie and TV sets.

I'd like to settle down eventually, but acting is emotionally draining.

When Take That came around my band had just come to an end and I was settling into acting life.

I've been an actor since the age of seventeen.

I used to watch several films a day when I was a kid. This made me think about taking up acting as a career.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.