Quotes About Acting

Once you begin shooting, Bollywood actors get totally involved in their roles, and that gives you an edge in getting what you want out of them.

In Bollywood, everything is very one dimensional. This is a girl: she laughs a lot, is forever happy, chirpy, and that's all she is doing throughout the film. That's not how we are.

Acting in two films would mean four months of the year, which would leave eight months for me, and if Bollywood needs that time from me, I am ready to give it a shot.

I am very much open to Bollywood and would love to work in great stories.

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you've played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it's 'safer' to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.

My Bond character was meant to look like a virgin. I don't think they do that very often.

I would love to play a Bond Girl one day, but I'd also love to work on a project as challenging and heartfelt as 'Room.'

I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.

My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

'Shameless' was the first project I've ever booked, and I'm really happy for it!

I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.

I was doing television and films for a good five years, and then I booked 'Cry-Baby.'

Most of my work has been in L.A. or booked in L.A. and shot on location.

When we did 'Boomerang,' which is one of my favorite scenes, the whole dinner scene was ad-libbed.

I don't know whether it is a boon or a bane but I can't act. I can just be. To me, that's the beauty of a performance. Otherwise, there is a falsetto, which sounds jarring.

But personally, I was bored playing only negative characters.

I easily get bored when I have to play the same kind of roles.

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.

You don't get bored with stuff like 'Birdman.'

I am bored of playing the bechari, behenji type of roles.

I am a little bored of playing negative characters.

The people who get bored and want to get out of a long-run aren't the people who actually like to act.