Quotes About Acting

'Buguri' is a romantic film, and I play Ganesh's love interest. Initially, I had just hoped to do one Kannada film since I'm a Kannadiga. Now, I'm even learning to converse in Kannada.

Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.

I initially went into 'Coronation Street' for three months. If they had said back then, 'Do you want to do it for six years?' I probably would have said, 'I don't think so.'

Initially, it was my dream to get into RADA. Then I got in. So it became my dream to show them I wasn't half bad at acting.

Initially, I did South Indian films because I needed the money; I had a huge student loan that I had to pay off. But I do feel that Marathi, English, and Hindi are what I'm more comfortable with.

Initially, I was a bit hesitant to do the role in 'MTP,' as it was a very serious and aching subject.

I acted as a hobby when I was a child but wasn't initially very good at it.

Initially, I resisted going into acting. You want to have your own identity, and I thought about doing other things, but that didn't last very long.

I disliked people calling me a chocolate hero initially, as I wanted to explore other genres of acting.

Films I did initially, like 'Arth' and 'Saransh' are really close to my heart.

Dancing gives an innate physical awareness - it's physical training. Acting feels like the same medium but just with words.

When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.

I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

Interestingly, I'm more closed on set than I am off set. On set, I'm closed. I don't want input. I want to concentrate on what I'm doing with this other person. But outside of that, I'm open. I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me.

Acting is my first love and I want to stick to it. But I would be happy to offer my inputs to a script, if asked.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

I loved playing young Diana so much. I am so fond of her, it's almost insane.

It's so insane to me that this is my actual job, that I get to come to set and do what I enjoy doing and get paid for it.

I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.

Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work.

Being an actor, you know what it feels like to be directed, so when the chance comes for you to direct someone else, you know how to approach an actor without scaring them off, without making them clam up, without making them feel insecure, without getting them in their head.