Quotes About Acting

I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.

Oh, the cat I worked with on 'Game of Thrones' was so badly behaved! It would never do anything it was supposed to do. I was like, 'Get your game together, cat. You're so bad.'

It doesn't hurt to be in 'Game of Thrones,' that's for sure, mainly because people actually see your work, and that is great.

If you're going to die on 'Game of Thrones,' you have to die well, haven't you?

My mum is still totally rocking it. She's appearing in 'Game of Thrones,' which is massively cool.

I got called back for 'Game Of Thrones,' and they nearly cast me.

I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It's a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs.

For 'Rangbaaz,' I had put on weight to play the gangster and for '83,' I had to lose all that weight.

I couldn't get roles as bad guys. They could see John Travolta as a gangster but not me, really. But, you know, that's just how things are.

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

Gulaal' gave me a chance to channelise my restlessness into a character that had layers of complexity.

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

As an actor, you tend to get excited about scenes that are weighty or meaty because you get to shift gears in a way that's quite interesting.

I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.

My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

I have disregarded gender when deciding which part to audition for.

And I got to play lead with Gene Barry - a fellow who has never, ever been hard on the eyes!

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.

Acting is in my genes, since my father late Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar was an actor.

I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.