Quotes About Acting

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

I'm probably infuriating to work with, particularly in 'Offspring,' because I'm in pretty much every scene so I need the other actors around me to be able to pull of the spontaneity of that character.

As an actor, I've been taught to just stay with your scene partner, and whatever they do, let it affect you, be spontaneous.

I can't do method acting. I feel there is a different energy that comes when an actor is spontaneous.

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.

I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take.

I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so uncontrolled.

I never used to want rehearsals, because I was like, 'Oh, no. I'm more spontaneous. I'm a natural. I'm a one-take person.' But that was because I didn't have any training. I was going off instinct.

I think the best thing you can do for an audition is to just do your work, be creative. It's OK to be spontaneous.

Both my mother's younger sisters, Padmini and Tejaswini, are actresses. I am extremely close to Teju mausi, as I am quite similar to her. We both are adventurous, spontaneous, childish, impulsive, and a bit silly and have our own strange sense of humour.

I don't plan my acting. If I had to copy someone, it would be someone like the legendary Sridevi. I am really bad at copying people. I am very spontaneous.

Since I am not a trained actor, and I act spontaneously, I thought getting some training in acting will definitely help me take my performance up a couple of notches.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

I never prepare. I think that's completely overrated. It's a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don't really believe in preparation.

Sukumar comes from a very different school of working style. He never shoots with set dialogues and scenes. Most of it is improvised on the spot. He'd tell me, 'Rakul, if this is your character, how would you behave? Show me.'