Quotes About Acting

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

most lies are acted out, rather than told

Una persona inauténtica sigue percibiendo las cosas y actuando de formas que su propia experiencia ha demostrado que son falsas. No habla con su propia voz.

Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful.

'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool ' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

To her the theater was never "show business." My grandmother would rise up out of her grave if she heard me use that word. She'd say "show--do you mean a circus?" and she would say it as if she were the Red Queen saying, "Off with her head!"

I played a eunuch in 'Shabnam Mausi' with Ashutosh Rana and no one even knew when the film released.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

Rohit Shetty liked my acting in the movie 'Theeran,' which released in 2017. He believed that I would justify the role of a baddie in 'Sooryavanshi.'

As for Kate Bosworth, I've always admired her. I watched her in a movie called 'Girl in the Park,' which has never been released - not even on DVD. I had a copy, and it was bravura acting I had not seen from her.

After 'Bulbul' released, I've been getting very good acting offers.

When 'Nil By Mouth' was released, people thought that's what we were actually like, that they'd put me and Ray in front of the cameras and filmed what came out. No acting involved.

I feel like within each of us is a million different people that we could reveal and that we can be sometimes... And for me, the process of acting isn't so much about finding the person outside of myself and mimicking them but, rather, releasing parts of myself and adding them to the character.

I've shied away from playing Asian characters. if you look back, I'm playing characters that have no relevance to my ethnicity.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

Frances McDormand is my favorite actor. I don't know if that's relevant. But she's a person who plays people. In other words, not everything has to be an over-the-top Broadway musical to get my attention, but it certainly helps.

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.