Quotes About Acting

I started drama in high school.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

When I was younger, I was an avid science girl. I was all about, 'I'm going to be a doctor.' Even when I graduated, I was like, 'I'm going to be a doctor.' Even though I did acting and I was in plays and drama clubs in high school and college, I still didn't think I was going to take it on as a career.

When I got to high school and college, I was more involved in athletics then I was in acting. At that time, I was trying to figure out what my identity was and roles became more gendered, it was a little bit more challenging for me to stay with the acting.

For me, a career highlight was being on 'Battlestar Galactica.' Roles like that don't come along very often.

Because I'm highly empathetic, it's easy for me to put myself in the character's shoes. It's, you know, finding the truth of the moment.

The way that I work as an actress, I always prefer to read the whole story and tell the whole story and feel what the whole story's going to be, the journey for the audience and how it ebbs and flows, the highs and the lows.

It took me a while to get over 'Highway'. I started living the character of 'Veera' very closely. I don't think I would be able to give so much to a character the way I did with her.

I would love to work with Ryan Reynolds - I think he is hilarious and talented - and also Seth Rogen.

I once worked with Emma Thompson's mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with.

Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.

I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.

I would definitely love to do Hindi films but I'll choose films carefully.

English is my first language, but when I started shooting for 'Definition of Fear,' I actually had trouble with my lines! It was so weird, because I never have trouble with my lines in Hindi!

In 'Godha,' I was a Punjabi girl and had Hindi, English and Punjabi dialogues.

I've shot many films in Hindi and some in Bangla in Kolkata. It's always a pleasure to be part of the city.

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.

I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.

I would love to do more Hindi films, but I am very laid-back that way and wouldn't go looking for more films.

If you are working in the Hindi film industry, you cannot escape playing a police guy more than three times.

I began my career with Gujarati and Hindi plays in 1973.