Quotes About Acting

I love acting. I was one of those dudes that was always in the plays in the church and at school.

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

If I wasn't an actress and I wasn't Stifler's mom, my life would be so dull.

Directors would tell me, 'We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.' Yeah, sure. What they mean is, 'You're playing a dummy.'

With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.

My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off.

I am dying to share screen space with Richa Chadha. In 'Masaan,' we do not have a single scene together.

I'm dying to do a drama.

Sometimes I feel like my normal approach to roles has been, 'I want to be more complex, dynamic.'

Acting came from growing up in dysfunction. I mean, a lot of great times, but a lot of dysfunction.

The kind of love and appreciation that I get each day is because of the characters I play on TV.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

Earlier we would do theatre and cinema both at a time and would consider TV only if we were offered.

'Balika Vadhu' happened to me because I worked hard in my earlier shows. So, in a way, they are responsible for building my identity.

People don't remember my work in my earlier films, as 'PKP' has been etched forever in their minds. So, I get similar kind of roles.

I have done some serious roles earlier and there have been some brilliant comedy roles in my career as well.

I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.

Some people think that I must be ancient because I've been in the business for so long, others still think of me as a waif and assume that I'm too young for certain roles. Starting out at such an early age seems to have worked against me.

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

In my early days, I used to go to many acting gurus, Asha Chandra and Roshan Taneja being two of them.

TV is definitely easier hours.

People always ask about learning all of your lines as an actor, and it's generally the easiest part of the job.

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

I do take my characters back home. In fact, I am the reel person in real life during the entire shoot. This affects me and my family because I tend to be eccentric or irritable during these times.