Quotes About Dedication

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe that you've got to be in the theater.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.

Our joy was to do theater. And in some theaters, the only pay we got was tokens for carfare.

If I listen to 120 stories, I'd love 10 of them, seven would go on floors, four would get completed, three films will have the first copy ready, and one will release in theaters. This is how it has been for me.

I have always worked consistently, even in small ways and even in smaller theaters where I'll do One Acts or something.

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

My dream really is just to keep working in film and in theatre.

I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.

I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.

If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.

I decided to do theatre intensely. I joined Makarand Deshpande's group Ansh. He became my guru. That's where I met Anurag Kashyap and Kay Kay Menon. These were the people who supported and inspired me.