Quotes About Acting

Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.

Film acting is so different from theatre acting, and TV is about letting things pay off and not winning every scene.

Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

As a camera actor, you're constantly in touch with technology. First the technology came into existence and then film acting happened. So it's always going to lead us.

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

I actually came out of drama school and went into two years of working in film and television, which was a happy accident.

I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get an agent, how to get a manager, how to - none of that was taught. It was all your craft, and I'm very appreciative that they taught the craft in theater, but film and television are completely different than theater.

I do enjoy doing both film and television.

The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

I have nothing against the film industry, but my mom asked me to do anything but act.

My first American role I got was 'Dora.' That was my big break into the American film industry.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

My biggest high is just to be in front of the camera and be on a film set.

When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.

When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.

I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months.

If anything, I'm overacting in the ring because of the facials and the body language. I want the guy in the cheap seats to be able to see what I'm thinking, the expression on my face. But when you're filming a movie, it could be a two- or three-camera shot, and you're doing it over and over and over again. It's not live TV; it's a lot different.

When I am filming a movie, I think I tend to do what I want with my character.

I was all of 18, and in love with Shammi Kapoor while we were filming 'Brahmachari.' He wanted me to give up my career, but I wasn't ready. I had my family to look after.