Quotes About Acting

I'm not going to take my shirt off in every movie.

I think, as an actress, it is amazing to shock your audiences.

A lot of people are shocked when they hear that I played a 14-year-old.

People just assume that you are not going to act after marriage, will stop doing romantic roles, and that every guy will stop his wife from acting. People who choose that are absolutely fine. I won't be shocked if I myself do it later. But that wasn't the case with us.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.

I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.

I can't be under the weight of the character for a 14-hour shooting day. I don't think anybody can do that.

'Terrible' is not a word I would use in shooting romantic scenes with Scott Speedman.

In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another scene, and then you shoot another scene.

Stage acting lets you feel the character a little better, but in the movies, you have to keep regenerating your energy level when shooting scenes over and over again.

I've sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there - little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.

I speak Marathi fluently and even during shoots I make it a point to speak in the language for most of the time.

I worked with Michael Goode back in 2009. We had done a short film together where I was the actor and he was the director. We got on well and I always remember that being the one of the first acting jobs I did.

I think personally that every actress should do a little film. Even a short film. And all directors should act, to know how difficult it is also the other way around.

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

When you go to a college for acting, at least the college I went to, it's like everybody just singing and dancing and acting, and they all come together, and everyone's talking about head shots... It just turned me off. I was like, 'What is this? I don't understand this. People are singing in the hallways.'

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

I know my talent when it comes to acting. But will I get the opportunity to showcase? That fear seeps in when an actor's film fail back-to-back.

A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it.