Quotes About Acting

One of the great books I read was by Sanford Meissner on acting. I found that really helpful for me as an actress.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.

It helps me rejuvenate when I use my energy in different directions and then come back to acting.

Very bad roles were coming my way, and I didn't want to do them. Hence, I was doing small films like 'Delhi Belly,' where, though the footage wasn't long, the role was good.

I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.

I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.

Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.

Working with Henry Winkler is like the biggest dream come true. He's the mench of menches.

When I was about five, I could do a vaguely decent American accent - straight through kind of decent - and 'Hercules' needed some kids. I definitely wasn't a good actor.

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

I think that is what all ethnic actors aspire to - to just play a woman who falls in love, or works as a clerk, or whatever - and then, if you want to, to have that luxury to bring in the cultural heritage.

I could not play a straight-ahead courageous hero. It's not what I do.

I'm not cut out to play a filmi hero. I don't look like a hero.

On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don't know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.

I've acted with shorter heroes, and no one has objected.

I am from Chandigarh, and while my friends wanted to pick up a proper job in the corporate world, I was dreaming of becoming a heroine.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

I do not want to do the regular heroine roles anymore. I am looking at working with good directors on interesting projects.

I think 'Heroine' was Kareena Kapoor's best ever role of her career.

There is no longer any pressure to play the heroine. So I can have fun and be the actor I want to be. I can look beyond the hairstyles and the clothes and concentrate on the acting.

I was just 15 years old when I did my first film, 'Faulad,' in 1963, opposite Dara Singh. Although I had worked earlier as a child actress, this was my first break as a lead heroine.

I never stopped being a heroine. I began acting when I was four and bagged my first film as a heroine at the age of 15.