Quotes About Acting

When you're on set with Ed Asner or Melissa Peterman, you start to sort of exist in a different realm sometimes. You try not to let that get in your head, and you try not to let that overtake you.

I act, produce, and direct. They are three different jobs all within the same realm of creativity. I enjoy all of them equally, but ultimately, I'm an actor.

'Premam' is the reason why I am what I am now. If anyone knows Anupama, it is because of Mary. I don't think any other character had the same impact.

I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.

One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was interesting to me to try and follow how other people, real or imaginary, would deal with problems, because I was trying to deal with my own problems.

I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

I think my dad's rebellion is that he's super accepting - I mean, he, like, encouraged me to drop out of university. And to do acting.

I recall very early Mel Gibson films where he's kind of cheeky. I wanted to embody those qualities, definitely.

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.'

Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors - I recall seeing them on my dad's shoots and getting jealous.

One of the things about acting is you can always use your life. You have to recall how you are and how people are and how you relate.

The only thing I can recall being allowed to improvise was the little singsong 'I don't know what to do' chant in 'Pierrot Le Fou.' Which I came up with because I literally did not know what to do!

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

We breathe life into a role, and it's overwhelming to receive positive feedback.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

My return to acting with Insaaf and Satyamev Jayate was well received. My rapport was the maximum with Dimple Kapadia.