Quotes About Acting

I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'

Working with Olivia Colman has probably been the highlight of my career so far.

You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'

I watch everything with Olivia Colman in.

Working with Kal Penn in 'Namesake' was funny at times. What we did was so real. We had fun on and off the sets, too.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

Ashish Sharma and I are close friends and we share a very good bond on and off sets.

I was looking for playing something positive on-screen, but I'm often offered roles that are either negative or grey.

It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.

Whenever you have chemistry on-screen, then you have to be very attracted to the person.

I played a bahu for six years on-screen. I really wanted to come out of that.

I just never thought in a million years that I would be, like, sharing a kiss on-screen with Adam Sandler.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're forgotten. You go away and you come back again.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

I always wanted to act, but it was not because of the influence of my family. I just wanted to act since I was four! I used to watch a lot of movies. One of the things that attracted me were the songs picturised on 'Govinda' and Karisma Kapoor, who would dance in the middle of the street!