Quotes About Acting

The only time I judge an actor on set is if they're not failing; if they get it right all the time, I start to question it. I feel like it's too easy.

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

I just looked preposterous. It would be 'King Lear' and I'd walk on with Cordelia's dead body in my arms and the audience would hoot with laughter. The only time they didn't laugh was when I was doing comedy.

I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was very different than anything I'd done onscreen.

If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.

I will reunite with Ananth Nag onscreen after a while for a cameo in Vijayalakshmi Singh's 'Yaanaa,' which sees her launching her daughters.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.

Kissing onscreen is very awkward because you have to worry about angles and you have to worry about where the camera is and you have to remember where your head was in this moment.

I think Kriti and I have great onscreen chemistry, which translates in real life.

I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.

Many people from the industry come up to me and say 'We don't see you onscreen much.' But where are the scripts? Do you think I am not sitting in my office and waiting for something like 'Matru' to happen to me? I would love to do four such films in a year.

Well, it definitely comes as a challenge to act as enemies onscreen when you bond with the opposite person very well off-screen.

Vatsal and I are comfortable with each other which I think is helping us look good together onscreen.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.