Quotes About Acting

Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.

It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.

I went to an acting school in Delhi after doing 15 films as a hero! I went there because I wanted to know what they teach in acting school since I had not done any formal training. I learnt a lot.

What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.

There's no formula for success in Bollywood, whether you are sharing screen space or getting the ultimate launch.

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

I have been very fortunate, working a lot in TV, and have been able to dip into the film world a little bit here and there.

If you're trying to be an actor, sometimes you get lucky, and you end up on 'The Office', but if you don't, and you know that you have something to say, it's really, really fortunate to be able to get to write and star in your own comedy.

I'm not yet fortunate enough to take only the scripts that capture my fancy, but each one has to be a new experience, to put me in a light that audiences haven't necessarily seen me before.

I think there is something about L.A., fortunately: once you get one role people think, 'Oh well, someone employed her, so maybe we can.' I mean, that's my idea of it, anyway. 'She can put one foot in front of the other and say a line.'

Fortunately, I have always played younger than what I am.

When I was a kid and getting paid to stand in front of a camera. I used to spend a lot of my time just laughing inside about the whole thing. It wasn't real to me. I couldn't act and I damn well knew it. I kept expecting someone to see the joke and call the whole thing off at any moment. Fortunately, no one ever did.

Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

I've never found acting that difficult.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through.

I got to work with Juliette Lewis in my fourth real movie, which was such a cool full-circle moment. Her character in 'Gilbert Grape' is why I wanted to become an actress.

I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.

Once the makeup is on, it is easy to enter the character's frame of mind.

I can't believe I am in the same frame as Irrfan Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan. It didn't hit me that I am shooting with them.